US HCR80

Concurrent resolution introduced March 25, 2026 recognizing Congress's duty to ensure equal workplace opportunity for approximately 75 million women in the U.S. workforce

Cites recent workforce data showing over 455,000 women exited the workforce in 2025, Black women's unemployment exceeding 7%, and the gender wage gap increasing for 2 consecutive years

Criticizes administration actions including threatened elimination of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau (established 1920), rescission of EEOC harassment guidance, and mass layoffs at federal agencies with majority-women workforces

Affirms congressional commitment to equal pay, pay transparency, paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, affordable childcare, accessible health care including reproductive care, and raising the federal minimum wage while eliminating tipped and subminimum wages

Commits to restoring and strengthening the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and recognizes every worker's right to join a union and collectively bargain