Around 103,000 women aged 20 and over exited the labor force in June, while 163,000 men in the same age group entered.

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especially in low-income areas, with few men as role ...

On Monday afternoon, 34 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus sent Chavez-DeRemer a letter demanding the labor secretary “immediately restore the Women’s Bureau to its full function and ...

By giving it the Women’s Bureau no funding and getting rid of staff in 2026, the department is essentially eliminating the agency now. It’s the latest effort by the Trump administration to ...

The Department of Labor said it would “eliminate” the Women ’s Bureau, a century-old department that focuses on advocating for economic equality and safe working environments for women, despite the ...

Indeed, the Women’s Bureau was created through a law enacted in 1920 to promote the welfare of women at work, improve their working conditions, and boost their abilities to earn good livings.

Black women missed out on $39.3 billion in 2019 alone, says U.S. Labor Department's Wendy Chun-Hoon who runs the agency's Women's Bureau.

The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of underrepresented groups, including women, who were less than 4% of firefighters at ...

A Northern California women's prison that has been under scrutiny and investigation over allegations of systemic sexual abuse will close despite efforts to reform the facility's culture of abuse ...

Labor Secretary Alexis Herman in 1998. (Cynthia Johnson / Getty Images file) At 29, Herman was the youngest person to fill the director role for the women’s bureau, which was established in 1920.