The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has been reporting impressive trends across many demographic categories for several quarters. One of the most important trends we see is development in the female workforce. Total US Labor Market participation reached an impressive 83.1% rate in the key age category of 25-54 year-olds. These levels have not been reached since the pre-crisis era over a decade ago. The real story is gains made by female workers. Women in this demographic have led the overall participation rate, rising from 73.3% in late 2015 to its latest reading of 77%, three times the percentage gain of men in the same category who rose from 88.2% to 89.3% over the same period. Even with this good news, we cannot lose focus on UN SDG #5 (Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls). Women in the US still earn only about 80 cents on the equivalent dollar wage for a man, a gap which expands further for Latinas, black women and women of Native American and Hawai’ian descent. [Chart courtesy Bloomberg LP © 2020, data US BLS]