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 the ...

A new Center for American Progress analysis shows that large shares of working women—both mothers and married women without cohabitating children—continue to be breadwinners for their families. Policy ...

The grants were administered by the Women’s Bureau, an office created by congressional mandate in 1920 to support women’s employment. This article is based on communications with four current ...

The women now housed at the prison will be transferred ... ongoing sexual abuse for months or years" in at least four Bureau of Prison facilities. Four facilities in New York, Florida, and ...

After the Women's Bureau was established in the US Department of Labor, women had access to more industries. As the popularity of silent films began to rise, women found work behind the scenes on ...

In 1977, when Herman was 29 years old, then-President Jimmy Carter selected her to lead the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor. In a 1977 interview with NPR, Herman described the bureau's ...

T he Federal Bureau of Prisons agreed pay $116 million to more than 100 former inmates at the scandal-plagued FCI Dublin women’s prison in California, which was recently permanently closed amid ...