U.S. Congress - H.R.3514 Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007
H.R.3514 - Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007
To authorize workshops to eliminate gender bias for women in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)
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- Official: To authorize workshops to eliminate gender bias for women in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007 as introduced.
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Official Summary
9/10/2007--Introduced.Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007 - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and SOfficial Summary
9/10/2007--Introduced.Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007 - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to separately host mandatory national meetings that educate members of review panels, university department chairs, and agency program officers about methods that minimize the effects of gender bias in evaluation. Requires that such meetings be held biennially for each major discipline. Instructs such agencies to enforce the federal anti-discrimination laws at universities and other higher education institutions through regular compliance reviews and prompt and thorough investigation of discrimination complaints. Requires enforcement efforts to evaluate whether universities have engaged in any discrimination banned under such laws. Requires the collection storage, and publication of specified grant data composite information. Requires submission by each agency of specified reports on:
(1) workshop content and attendance, along with data on the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and
(2) the impact of such program to reduce gender bias towards women engaged in research funded by the agency.
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Gender Bias In Science
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) recently introduced the Gender Bias Elimination Act (HR 3514). Women are capable of contributing more to the nation's science and engineering research enterprise, but bias and outmoded practices governing ...
Take action â support the Gender Bias Elimination Act (HR 3514).
In response to this report, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) recently introduced the Gender Bias Elimination Act (HR 3514). Learn more and contact your representative in Congress: http://www.capwiz.com/aauw/issues/alert/?alertid=10525271.
Women Leave Engineering More Than Men
The bill, introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 3514, authorizes workshops to eliminate gender bias for women in careers in STEM. âAs America struggles to keep up in the global economy, itâs imperative we refrain from ...
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