Women’s and Fair Practices
The Women’s and Fair Practices Departments (WFP) are committed to protecting and advancing the civil, human, women's, and workers' rights of federal and D.C. government workers and their families through education and training, member organizing and mobilization, legislative and political action, and representation through litigation.
AFGE established the Fair Practices Department in 1968 to function as the union's civil rights arm and to strengthen and enforce equal employment opportunity laws. Six years later in 1974, the Women’s Department was created to improve the status of women and their families and to eliminate artificial barriers to the progress of women in government service.
Under the leadership of the National Vice President for Women and Fair Practices, WFP staff work with our Human Rights Network, to fight discrimination in the federal and D.C. government, to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace and AFGE, and to continue to develop our coalition of union leaders and activists committed to building a more just workplace, union, and world.
