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The administration wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women workers

Mother Jones | Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty
Mother Jones | Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty

A summary of the Labor Department’s budget request for the next fiscal year, released by the agency on Friday, shows the department is proposing to entirely eliminate the Women’s Bureau—which it calls “an ineffective policy office that is a relic of the past”—for the first time ever…. Nine current and former DOL staffers told Mother Jones the move reflects the Trump administration’s ambitions to encourage more women to stop working and instead stay home to raise children. “It really feels like a specific [effort] to get women out of the workplace” Above: Members of the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau in 1946

Posted in: News on 06/09/2025 | Link to this post on IFP |
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