Current Status
Currently, the WB is assisting working women in a variety of ways by:
- Providing financial education to Generation X and Y women through a curriculum offered online and in classroom settings in a program called Wi$eUp
- Helping business owners to develop policies and provide workplace flexibility for working women through the Flex-Options project
- Introducing young women to the field of nanotechnology
- Serving women in economic and employment transitions that are implemented by Women Work! The National Network for Women’s Employment
- Publishing fact sheets and electronic newsletters that address workplace concerns and report the status of women workers
- Using Internet technologies to broadcast its financial education public service campaign to working women and their families.
Read more about this topic: United States Women's Bureau
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