Donald Trump’s transition team has ordered the State Department to detail which of the agency’s jobs and programs focus on gender equality and ending violence against women, in a move that has raised alarm among women’s rights advocates in the Foreign Service. The order came in a one-page memo with the subject heading “Gender-Related Staffing, Programming and Funding.” The memo comes a week after the Trump transition team asked the Department of Energy to name employees working on climate change.
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