WHAT IS AT STAKE: Secret Service leadership has broadcast that sex plays a key role in hiring and promotions, including setting an arbitrary goal of 30% of agents being female by 2030. Sex-discriminatory employment decisions are illegal and actually harm women, by establishing a workplace-wide, and sometimes society-wide, assumption that women can’t compete without a handout.
Independent Women’s Forum seeks information from current and former agents and agency applicants who believe that they were wrongfully discriminated against based on their sex.
Independent Women’s Forum joins this fight with Mountain States Legal Foundation to protect the dignity and respect that women have earned in male-dominated workplaces. The Secret Service employs many talented and highly-capable women. But on July 13, 2024, former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated in an unfathomable security failure. Devastatingly for all women in law enforcement, too many questioned whether this was the fault of women, following photographs from the day. Not only do biased hiring practices in high-stakes roles threaten our national security, but they create doubts over female competence, threatening women’s ability to be viewed and treated as equal.
Has the Secret Service discriminated against you or someone you know?
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Are you a male agent–of any race–who has faced different hiring, promotion, or assignment standards than your female colleagues?
Your privacy is important to us. Your information will not be shared, and a member of Independent Women’s Law Center will be in touch.
