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WB Updates Newsletter | April 2022 | Issue IV

Supporting Women Truck Drivers
90-Day Trucking Action Plan - On April 4, Women’s Bureau (WB) Director Wendy Chun-Hoon, along with Program Analyst Katrin
Schulz, attended a White House event highlighting the administration’s 90 Day Trucking Action Plan, which is part of ongoing work
to address supply chain priorities. The Department of Labor’s role in these efforts is to ensure trucking jobs are good jobs and safe
jobs. To that end, together with the Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS), the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Office of the Secretary (OSEC), the WB has been building DOL’s Driving
Good Jobs Initiative, our centerpiece within the 90 Day Trucking Action Plan.
Read the White House Fact Sheet
Day of Action - On April 28, the WB in partnership with women truck drivers, sexual assault survivors, employers, advocacy groups,
Members of Congress, the White House, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission organized a Day of Action to Raise Awareness and Advocate for the Prevention of
Sexual Assault & Sexual Harassment in Trucking. The Day of Action secured commitments from industry employers and
associations to combat sexual assault and violence in the industry. The WB culminated the Day of Action with a roundtable
discussion about strategies to ensure drivers have safe and inclusive work environments, to shift cultural norms and to ensure
trauma-informed, survivor-centered responses to reports of violence and harassment that occur both in and outside of the truck.

Find more information about promoting safety in trucking
Check out this ride along video filmed with long haul truck driver Brita Nowak and Wendy Chun Hoon, Nikkilia Lu and Katrin
Schulz of the WB

Read the blog: “Day of Action to Promote Safety and Prevent Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Trucking Industry”
Read the blog: “Driving Change: Ensuring a Safe Work Environment in the Trucking Industry”
Read the press release

Other Recent Events
Flipping the Script: Racial and Gender
Equity in a Recovering Economy

The Atlantic’s “The Progress Report:
Advancing Equity in America”

The Economy She Deserves: Building
an Agenda for a Women-Centered
Recovery
woman working with child
WB Director Wendy Chun-Hoon
participated in “The Economy She
Deserves: Building an Agenda for a
Women-Centered Recovery,” discussing

The WB closed out Women’s History
Month with a panel of experts who

the impacts of the pandemic on women
workers and how to build an economy

explored whether pandemic-related
outcomes are likely to perpetuate

that works for women. She talked about
combatting occupational segregation

longstanding patterns of gender or racial
inequality or whether this is a "flip the

through increased access to
apprenticeships and training, and

script" moment with the potential for
the recovery to usher in an era of greater

increasing access to paid family medical
leave.

equity and equality for Black women
workers and indeed, all women
workers.
Watch the recording
Equity in Focus: Investing in Childcare
Careers

WB Director Wendy Chun-Hoon
participated in The Atlantic’s “The
Progress Report: Advancing Equity in
America” virtual event, during which she
discussed the future of women in the
workforce.
She noted the importance of making
sure that “we’re able to choose our

.Watch the recording
HBCU Educational Forum: Federal
Opportunities and Resources
On April 28, the WB in collaboration with
the White House Initiative on Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Solutions for the Justice Involved
Women Program
In honor of Second Chance Month, the
WB has been hosting a webinar series for
DOL employees and members of the
public.

careers based on our interests and not
based on our gender, and really

Part 1 on April 20th, featured

addressing this issue about occupational
segregation, supporting women to get

in the area of female incarceration

into the jobs that are going to be created
to rebuild the infrastructure of our
The WB, in partnership with Cornell’s
Worker Institute, hosted a second
conversation in the Equity in Focus
webinar series. Equity in Focus: Investing
in Childcare Careers explored the
challenges of the childcare industry and
the impact of COVID-19 on this industry
and its workers. The webinar also
highlighted local examples across the US
that are improving access to childcare
while also raising wages for childcare
workers.

Watch the recording

country.”
“Entering into a workplace where you
are by far the minority is going to take a
lot of attention to make sure that that
workplace is really free from harassment
and discrimination and bullying.”
Watch the recording
North American Building Trades
Unions Legislative Summit

justice involved women, experts
and advocates speaking about the
challenges and barriers justice
involved women face.
Part 2 on April 27th, was solution
oriented. DOL agencies and
grantees shared the resources and
supports they are providing to
help justice involved women
advance in the workplace and
external organizations shared
their thoughts on the components
necessary to run a successful
reentry program.
Part 3 on May 4th will further

WB Director Wendy Chun-Hoon comoderated a powerful session at the

explore how adverse childhood

NABTU legislative summit. The session
featured tradeswomen from across the

subsequent trauma substantially

experiences (ACES) and
increases the likelihood of women
to experience incarceration or

hosted a webinar for HBCU students,

skilled trades talking about strategies for

entanglement with the criminal

faculty members and parents to provide
information on resources from federal

diversifying unions and careers in the
trades.

legal system.

agencies and opportunities for
employment within the government.

Learn more about what the WB is

Representatives of the WB, the Wage and
Hour Division, the National Oceanic and

traditional occupations

Atmospheric Administration and other
agencies were in attendance. In addition
to employment opportunities,
information about apprenticeships,
veterans services, and benefits programs
were discussed.

Register for the event

doing to help women enter non-

Hear Our Voices
On April 25, WB Director Wendy ChunHoon spoke on the panel, Hear Our
Voices, hosted by the Center for Asian
Pacific Women, Organization for Chinese
Americans, and Center for Pan Asian
Community Services. The 3-part series is
focused on disrupting xenophobia and
promoting visibility of the diverse lived
experiences among the AANHPI
community, in reflection of the
anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings
and in lead up to AANHPI heritage
month in May.

DOL Equity Action Plan
illustrative graphic of group
DOL released its Equity Action Plan summarizing the early actions we have taken to support marginalized, vulnerable and
underserved communities, and the steps we're continuing to take to advance equity across the department. Themes in the plan
include protecting workers’ wage and hour rights, improving timely access to unemployment insurance benefits, improving
language access in DOL programs and services, reducing barriers to workforce training for underserved communities, and
developing government apprenticeships.
Read the Equity Action Plan
Read the blog: “How We’re Advancing Equity for Underserved Workers”
Read the blog: “By the Numbers: How We’re Advancing Equity at the US Department of Labor”

Recognizing Black Maternal Health Week

During Black Maternal Health Week, the White House released a fact sheet describing actions in response to Vice President Harris’s
call to action on maternal health. Vice President Harris convened a meeting with Cabinet Secretaries and agency leaders to discuss
the Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing maternal mortality and morbidity. The Vice President convened
leaders across the federal government – including agencies that may not have historically taken a leading role addressing the
maternal health crisis.
Read the White House Fact Sheet

Join our Team!

The WB is hiring a Communications Specialist. The announcement closes on May 9.
Apply here

A Look Ahead

May 4, 12:00-1:30 pm ET | Trauma Informed Care for Justice Involved Women
Register for the event
May 11, 3:00-4:30 pm ET | Equity in the Workplace: What Does Equity Look Like for Military Spouses
Register for the event
May 12, 9:00-10:00 pm ET | Know Your Rights: FMLA and Nursing Mothers
Register for the event
May 17, 11:30 am-1:30 pm ET | Migrant Women in the Workplace: Mental Health Roundtable
Learn more and register
May 18, 3:00-4:30 pm ET | Equity in the Workplace: Pregnancy and Parenting Workers
Register for the event
May 25 (tentative date) | Equity in the Workplace: Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women
Registration link to come

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"Occupational segregation" is the gendered division of men and women into different types of jobs. It leads to women being
overrepresented in certain jobs, which are generally valued and compensated less than male-dominated jobs.
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