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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press
Secretary
April 20, 1993
KAREN NUSSBAUM TO HEAD WOMEN'S BUREAU AT LABOR
(Washington, DC) The President will nominate Karen Nussbaum, who holds
leadership positions in several women's and workers' organizations, to be
Director of the Depart of Labor's Women's Bureau, the White House announced
today. The Women's Bureau is responsible for programs aimed at meeting the
needs of working women.
"Karen Nussbaum has been organizing working women for two decades," said the
President. "She is uniquely qualified for this important job."
Nussbaum is currently the Executive Director of 9to5, the National Association
of Working Women, as well as President of District 925 of the Service
Employees International Union, a member of that union's Executive Board, and
Chair of its Office Workers Division. She has been 9to5's Executive Director
since 1977, and first became President of SEIU's Local 925 in 1975.
Nussbaum is the co-author of two books, Solutions for the New Work Force:
Policies for a New Social Contract, and 9to5: The Working Woman's Guide to
Office Survival. She has appeared frequently as a commentator on television
and radio programs, and has testified before a number of Congressional
committees. Now a
Cleveland area resident, Nussbaum first became active in the labor movement
while working as a clerk-typist at Harvard University in the early 1970s. She
is a graduate of Goddard College and also studied at the University of
Chicago.
