Gesher Human Services Offers Free Women to Work Program as New Data Shows Women Severely Impacted by the Labor Force Decline this Summer September 15, 2026, Southfield, MI!
Gesher Human Services, one of the largest human service agencies in metro Detroit, will offer its life-changing Women to Work program starting on Tues. Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to noon. The four-week program, which will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays in person at Gesher’s headquarters in Southfield (29699 Southfield Road), is offered free to metro Detroit women who have been out of the workforce and need immediate employment.
It is being offered as new data analysis from the Nationals Women’s Law Center found that women accounted for 100% of the labor force decline in July when the economy lost 23,000 jobs: women accounted for all of those losses at 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9000 jobs. The reports said that women make up just over half of the workforce. The organization analyzed monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and found that the number of women who have left the workforce since January is 845,00, compared with 406,000 fewer men in the workforce.