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Department of Labor - Women's Bureau

The Women's Bureau was established by Congress in 1920 to represent the employment needs of America's working women. The Bureau carries out its mission through demonstration projects and partnerships with firms, universities, and other organizations in order to improve working conditions for women.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The Bureau cannot demonstrate that its programs have a significant effect on women's employment goals. For example, the program's current performance measures do not clearly establish how participation in a demonstration project increases women's earnings or helps them find better employment opportunities.
  • Previous program evaluations were not comprehensive, and did not clearly demonstrate program effectiveness. For example, three of the four evaluations covered administrative functions and the fourth could not demonstrate what impact the evaluated project had on participants.
  • The Bureau's six long-term performance measures do not assess the impact each demonstration project has on improving women's opportunities in the workforce. For example, one of the program's current measures focuses on women's financial security but does not clearly tie participation in the program to increased financial knowledge or well-being.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing improved outcome measures to more clearly demonstrate the results of the program's demonstration projects and link directly to the program's mission.
  • Setting aggressive long-term targets for improving working conditions for women.
  • Develop and use a uniform definition for "interested employers who enhance or implement flexible workplace policies" in order to improve the consistency and reliability of performance data.

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