{"id":610595,"date":"2019-04-23T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1821569\/women-in-space-enhancing-capability-through-diversity\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:25:00","slug":"women-in-space-enhancing-capability-through-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=610595","title":{"rendered":"Women in space: Enhancing capability through diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center commander, sat with six of his most senior space program managers during a media panel at the 35th Space Symposium, he noted how similar they were in age, race and gender and expressed his desire to have more diverse representation amongst space professionals. Thompson isn\u2019t the only one who sees the value of diversity in space-related jobs. <br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Apr\/23\/2002119626\/82\/55\/0\/190411-F-SO188-0001.JPG' alt='Brig. Gen. Deanna Burt, Director of Operations and Communications, Air Force Space Command, participates in a panel at the third Women\u2019s Global Gathering to discuss her struggles and successes navigating a career in which she was frequently the only woman in the room, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 11, 2019.' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center commander, sat with six of his most senior space program managers during a media panel at the 35th Space Symposium, he noted how similar they were in age, race and gender and express&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614366,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610595\/revisions\/614366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}