[2] The bureau was created with funds from an inheritance, valued at nearly one million dollars, left to the cause of women's suffrage by Miriam Leslie.

[2][3][4] The Bureau was a daily news service distributed in all fifty states that collected and distributed information about women's right to vote; Young's job was to compile and redistribute news, editorials, photographs, cartoons and statistics to newspapers across the United States to inform the public about efforts related to women's suffrage and advocate for its adoption.

[6] This project extended the reach of the Leslie Bureau's research department for compiling statistics, lists of books, and editorial pieces.

The Woman Citizen operated out of 171 Madison Avenue in New York City and on its own had a circulation of 20,000 readers.

[2] Young also contributed to several magazines and newspapers by writing editorials advocating for the advancement of the cause of women's suffrage.