The issue of federal equal employment opportunity (EEO) is explored by examining employment trends for blacks and women in middle- and higher-level positions and looking for possible impacts of elements of the 1978 civil service reform designed to advance EEO. Using an interrupted time-series multiple-regression model, the rate of increase in black employment was found to decline slightly following the reform. For women, however, long-term employment trends in the middle-level grades that were examined appear unchanged, whereas the employment rate in higher grades increased following the 1978 reform.
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