The Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Diversity Management Section (DMS) provides leadership, guidance, and technical assistance to DHS Components on the Department’s EEO and diversity initiatives, consistent with federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and management directives. Specifically, DMS:

• Prepares EEO and diversity policy guidance for Department personnel;
• Supports special emphasis programs that increase awareness of diversity issues throughout the Department; and
• Conducts workforce trend analysis, including Department-wide workforce data tables to identify anomalies that may be tied to EEO or diversity issues.

On behalf of the Department, DMS also prepares and submits mandated annual EEO and diversity reports to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Education’s White House Initiatives Office to Assist Minority Serving Institutions. DMS staff also actively participate on various committees and working groups, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Applicant Flow Data working group, the White House Council on Native American Affairs, the Intelligence Community’s EEO Data group, and the inter-departmental Women Veterans Initiative.

DHS Diversity Demographics and Statistics

* "Targeted disabilities" are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis. These include: deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, convulsive disorders, mental retardation, mental illness, and distortion of limb and/or spine. For more information, see EEOC's Improving the Participation Rate of People with Targeted Disabilities in the Federal Work Force, January 2008. (http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/reports/pwtd.html)

EEO Resources

• DHS Anti-discrimination Policy Statement
• DHS Anti-Harassment Management Directive, 256-01
• DHS Management Directive 715 Reporting
• Filing an EEO Complaint
• EEO Laws and Policies