Women - Articles

DOL announces $1.4M in grants to prevent workplace gender-based violence, harassment

September 14, 2024

Workplace violence and harassment disproportionately harms women from underserved and historically marginalized communities, including women of color, LGBTQI+ individuals, women with disabilities and women affected by persistent poverty and inequality.

Executive women manufacturing leaders offer advice to other aspiring females

March 17, 2022

We are often asked about what advice we would have for other women in manufacturing. At first, it was a difficult question for us to answer because we did not particularly focus on being women – we just were people working hard at doing the jobs we were engaged in.

Let’s celebrate women in construction

Since 2012, the number of women in the industry has increased 54%, to about 1.2M

Benita Mehta

March 17, 2022

Today, there are approximately 1.2 million women employed in the US construction industry, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Women still account for only 11 percent of the construction industry overall, however.

Building successful careers

Women in construction should take advantage of available resources

Donald Meeker

December 8, 2020

Women have made amazing strides in many fields and industries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Unfortunately, there are many others in which it remains a big challenge for a woman to rise to the top — or even, in some cases, to enter the industry at all.

When work becomes a sexual battleground

Sexual harassment in wokplace a form of aggesssion

March 13, 2013

To mark International Women’s Day this past March 8, which focused on “violence against women,” the International Labour Organization is highlighting the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace – an often subtle but disturbing form of aggression.

Risk of lung cancer death among women rises dramatically

“If women smoke like men, they will die like men”

February 18, 2013

Female smokers have a much greater risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) in recent years than did female smokers 20 or 40 years ago, reflecting changes in smoking behavior according to a Special Article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Women urged to take action during American Heart Month

Heart disease is the leading killer of women in the U.S.

February 6, 2013

During February -- American Heart Month -- the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is conducting The Heart Truth campaign to bring to light the stories of women who are actively protecting their hearts inspiring others to do the same.

Study spotlights high breast cancer risk for plastics workers

November 19, 2012

For more than three decades, women working in the plastic automotive parts factories in Windsor, Ontario have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city’s plants: Pungent fumes and dust that caused nosebleeds, headaches, nausea and dizziness.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 2, 2012

Not counting some kinds of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, according the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is using the month of October to urge women to get mammograms on a regular basis.

New mobile app gives women a year of health info

August 30, 2012

52 Weeks for Women’s Health, a new app that offers women access to a year's worth of practical health information, highlighted week-by-week, is now available.