Gayle Goldin is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, previously having served as deputy director of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, during the Biden–Harris administration, where she provided executive leadership to the only federal agency mandated by Congress to focus on the needs of working women. She represented the Women’s Bureau domestically and internationally while managing a portfolio of policy issues, including paid leave, sick time, child care, gender-based violence and harassment, and gender equity.
Gayle is a policy analyst, strategist, and former Rhode Island state senator. Prior to joining the Women’s Bureau, Gayle served as campaign advisor to Family Values @ Work, where she helped grassroots coalitions around the country pass paid leave legislation while also advocating for a national paid family and medical leave program. Gayle has also served as the strategic initiatives officer at Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, where she developed a gender equity policy platform, ran the Women’s Policy Institute, and oversaw the grant making process.
In her first year as a state senator, Gayle successfully championed the passage of Temporary Caregiver Insurance, making Rhode Island the third state with paid leave and the first state to ensure everyone who used it has a right to return to work afterwards. During her legislative career, she also led efforts to increase access to affordable child care, improve health care, protect reproductive rights, raise the tipped minimum wage, address the gender and racial wage gap and strengthen our democracy.
Gayle holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University and earned her master’s degree from Tufts University.