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Trump Administration Women in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiatives (view source)
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(Sec. 4) NASA shall submit to Congress a specified plan on how NASA can best facilitate and support both current and retired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and innovators, including early career female astronauts, scientists, engineers, and innovators, to engage with K-12 female STEM students and inspire the next generation of women to consider participating in STEM fields and to pursue careers in aerospace.
==H.R.255 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act==
Text from https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/255/text?format=txt
[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 255 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.255
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen
An Act
To authorize the National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial
programs for women.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship
Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) women make up almost 50 percent of the workforce, but less
than 25 percent of the workforce in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions;
(2) women are less likely to focus on the STEM disciplines in
undergraduate and graduate study;
(3) only 26 percent of women who do attain degrees in STEM
fields work in STEM jobs;
(4) there is an increasing demand for individuals with STEM
degrees to extend their focus beyond the laboratory so they can be
leaders in discovery commercialization;
(5) studies have shown that technology and commercialization
ventures are successful when women are in top management positions;
and
(6) the National Science Foundation's mission includes
supporting women in STEM disciplines.
SEC. 3. SUPPORTING WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAMS.
Section 33 of the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act
(42 U.S.C. 1885a) is amended--
(1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (10);
(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (11) and
inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(12) encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and
support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into
the commercial world.''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
