"While the majority of new women workers being organized have been concentrated in low wage service jobs such as nurse aides, home care workers, hotel housekeepers, food service workers, educational support staff, janitors, and day care workers, significant numbers of newly organized workers have included women workers in professional, technical, and clerical occupations in both the public and private sectors (Bronfenbrenner 2005). Yet unfortunately, to date there has been no comprehensive research examining the extent and nature of union organizing among professional and technical women workers in the public and private sectors either in elections or card-check campaigns."

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- Kate Bronfenbrenner