Recognizing the duty of Congress to meet the needs of working women.

Summary

Expresses Congress’s findings that recent executive and administrative actions have weakened workplace protections for women and other gender minorities, and declares Congress’s obligation to guarantee equal protection against discrimination based on sex, gender, or gender nonconformity. It highlights concerns about rollbacks in enforcement, threats to the Women’s Bureau and EEOC guidance, cuts and layoffs at federal agencies with majority-women workforces, weakened apprenticeship equal-opportunity rules, erosion of collective bargaining, and inadequate support for caregiving and care-sector jobs, and calls for congressional action to advance the rights of working women. The resolution is a nonbinding statement of findings and policy and does not change law or provide funding.

• Expresses congressional findings that recent executive and administrative actions have weakened workplace protections for women and gender minorities.
• Declares a policy obligation to guard against discrimination based on sex, gender, or gender nonconformity.
• Highlights disproportionate harm to women, especially women of color and immigrant women, from reduced enforcement and program cuts.
• Calls attention to threats to the Women’s Bureau and weakened EEOC harassment guidance.
• Notes layoffs and cuts at several federal agencies with majority-women workforces as a concern for gender equity.
• Identifies erosion of collective bargaining and reduced support for caregiving and care-sector jobs as harms to working women.
• Is a nonbinding resolution that states findings and calls for action but does not change law or provide funding.
• Intended to guide oversight, shape public debate, and support potential future legislation or administrative responses.