This concurrent resolution, introduced March 25, 2026 and referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce, says Congress has a duty to meet the needs of working women. It lists problems such as wage gaps, workplace discrimination and harassment, occupational segregation, care work that is unpaid or low paid, and recent administrative actions the resolution says have weakened protections. The resolution affirms commitments to equal pay and pay transparency, workplaces free from discrimination, workplace safety, comprehensive health care including reproductive care, affordable childcare and early education, paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, predictable scheduling, access to housing and education, restoring agencies that enforce civil rights at work, raising wages including the federal minimum wage, eliminating tipped and subminimum wages, and protecting the right to join a union. It calls on federal, state, and local governments, employers, labor groups, and community organizations to work together and declares addressing working women's needs essential to the Nation's prosperity.
The resolution expresses Congress's priorities and calls for action to improve economic security and workplace treatment for working women. It names specific goals such as pay equity, safer workplaces, better care and family leave, and stronger enforcement of civil rights at work. It asks governments, employers, and other groups to act but does not itself list new programs or funding in the text provided.
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The resolution says supporters want to ensure equal opportunity and economic security for women, reduce the wage gap, protect workers from harassment and discrimination, expand access to health care and childcare, raise wages, eliminate subminimum tipped wages, strengthen enforcement agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and support workers' rights to organize.
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