Women’s eNEWS (womensenews.org) reported in April 2005 that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was going to eliminate the Women Worker Series from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, a monthly report from payroll data, by gender, of “who worked where.”

See: (article, by Marie Tessier, WeNews correspondent)

OMB finally dropped the data on August 5, 2005 on the grounds that tracking women at work was a “burden on employers.” See http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesww.htm

Tessler's article is entitled, “Agency Flooded with Pleas to Save Data on Women's Work”.

Wake up, girls! If we want employers and government to keep this data available for analysis, then:

(1) we will need to be sure that more than our little girl-gangs of non-profit associations are out there demanding that someone retain the data,

(2) we will need to be in the positions of power, politically and legislatively, to counter those who are making these horrific decisions to drop the information, or

(3) we will need to be generating the data ourselves as economic entities.

Or maybe ALL of the above.

In short, we need to stop this little girl mentality of “Oh, please Big Daddy OMB – save our data! Please, pretty please!!”

And in its place, we need to substitute the mature, economic female business case that, “If this data is worth something to women in business, then we’re going to make it happen ourselves. Damn it!”