What is United States Women's Bureau?
[[File:WomensBureau29493r.jpg|thumb|300px|{{center|Women's Bureau in 1920}}]] The '''United States Women's Bureau''' ('''WB''') is an [[agency]] of the [[United States government]]. It is a part of the [[United States Department of Labor]]. The Woman's Bureau was established by [[United States Congress|Congress]] in 1920. It is the only [[Federal government of the United States|federal]] agency mandated to represent the needs of women [[:en:wikt:wage earners|wage earners]] in the public [[:wikt:policy|policy]] [[:wikt:process|process]]. The [[:wikt:director|Director]] is appointed by the [[President]] and confirmed by the [[United States Senate|Senate]]. He or she is supported by a [[Employee|staff]] in the national office as well as ten [[region]]al offices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dol.gov/wb/info_about_wb/regions/regions.htm |title=Woman's Bureau; Regional Map |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher=U.S. Department of Labor |accessdate=26 February 2014 |archive-date=9 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709035229/http://www.dol.gov/wb/info_about_wb/regions/regions.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==History== In 1918 President [[Woodrow Wilson]] created '''Woman in Industry Service'''.<ref name=Skocpol419>Theda Skocpol, ''Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 419</ref> It was the [[:wikt:predecessor|predecessor]] of the more permanent Women's Bureau which was founded in 1920.<ref>''Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History'', Volume 1, ed. Eric Arnesen (New York; Oxford: Routledge, 2007), p. 1512</ref> The agency was founded by an [[act of Congress]]. The first director was [[Mary Anderson (labor leader)|Mary Anderson]].<ref>Jill Roe, ''Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), p. 255</ref> She had been the [[Deputy|assistant]] director of the Woman in Industry Service.<re