Construction has long been a male-dominated field. According to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 11.5% of payroll employees in the construction industry are women.

A statue paying tribute to the women who harvested and worked the cloth for Victorian mills has been installed in Nottingham.

An annual tribunal where farmworkers share their experiences and needs has spurred laws guaranteeing overtime pay and heat ...

Data from Statistics Canada shows that the number of female farm operators in 2021 had risen for the first time since 1991, pointing to the fact that women's participation in agriculture is ...

When Penny Miller was growing up on her family's cow-calf ranch in Athabasca, Alta., her father, who also worked in forestry, and her two older brothers were regularly called away to off-ranch jobs.

"I will give my mom a little credit because [she] did not grow up on a farm. She wasn't used to rural life as far as working with cows and operating a tractor and stuff like that," said Miller. "There ...

Reverend Richard Witt is the Executive Director of Rural & Migrant Ministry, an organization advocating for farmworkers and rural workers in New York. He told Tim Bruno at Radio Catskill that ...

or closure of establishments from 100 to 300 workers; fixed-term employment; allowing women to work night shifts with safety provisions; and increasing the ceiling of overtime from 75 to 144 hours ...

As per the Economic Survey 2025, the proportion of self-employed workers has grown from 52.2% in 2017-18 to 58.4% in 2023-24. However, a stark gender gap persists—female self-employed workers earn ...

The Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia has issued a warning regarding fraudulent activities involving the illegal recruitment of Bangladeshi female workers to Malaysia. In a statement today ...

The first local ICE raids since President Donald Trump took office began last week at a fish wholesaler on January 23 in Newark where both undocumented workers and U.S. citizens —- including a ...