Women's Bureau (WB)

Only four in 10 working women have retirement accounts, and women save less income for retirement than men. We investigate the disparity and propose solutions.

We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.

Parents who have the feeling that child care gets more expensive every year aren’t imagining it.

As Mother’s Day fast approaches, let’s celebrate moms not just for their role in their families, but also for their integral role in the U.S. economy with five fast facts.

The Women's Bureau shares important data highlighting that overall maternal employment has largely recovered from the steep declines experienced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but access to child care is still an issue.

In the last decade, reentry programs that provide training and support services for justice-involved individuals have proven to be successful evidence-based and community-supported solutions. Read Shan Shan's story in our new blog.

Older women are critical to the care infrastructure of the U.S. This care is crucial for the care recipients themselves; but more broadly, it allows employees to work and thrive, and the U.S. economy to function.

Domestic violence affects 17 million people in the U.S. every year, impacting their physical and mental health, safety, ability to work and economic security.

Here are some of the ways the Department of Labor supports working families.

Two new reports shed light on the status of working women in America and the challenges they face.