IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1129 
Expressing support for viewing women’s health as a critical issue for the 
economy and workforce of the United States and for advancing the 
health and well-being of all people. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2022 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. LEE of 
California, Mr. MOULTON, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. CHU, Ms. 
ESHOO, Mr. BOWMAN, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, and Ms. MAN-
NING) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for viewing women’s health as a critical 
issue for the economy and workforce of the United States 
and for advancing the health and well-being of all people. 
Whereas women constitute 50.8 percent of United States citi-
zens and nearly 1⁄2 of the workforce in the United States; 
Whereas women control 60 percent of personal wealth and 
are responsible for 85 percent of consumer spending and 
80 percent of health care decisions; 
Whereas, across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, 
disability statuses, and age groups— 
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•HRES 1129 IH 
(1) women experience many diseases and disorders 
differently than men; 
(2) the incidence, prevalence, symptomology, and se-
verity of disease may differ between men and women; 
(3) women vary in the risks of certain diseases and 
the benefits of medical therapies; and 
(4) for many years, women were underrepresented in 
biomedical and clinical research; 
Whereas longer life spans of women require the need for re-
search on the health of older women; 
Whereas women and men have fundamental biological dif-
ferences at the cellular level; 
Whereas 2⁄3 of patients with Alzheimer’s disease are women; 
Whereas heart disease is the leading cause of death in 
women, and women are 50 percent more likely to die the 
year following a heart attack than men; 
Whereas 80 percent of patients with autoimmune diseases are 
women; 
Whereas women have more stroke events and are less likely 
to recover from such events than men; 
Whereas there are significant sex and age differences between 
men and women with respect to drug administration and 
dosage; 
Whereas older women are more prone to having multiple 
medical problems and, as a result, may be taking incor-
rectly prescribed medications due to lack of information 
on gender and age differences; 
Whereas, on January 25, 2016, the National Institutes of 
Health implemented a policy requiring federally funded 
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•HRES 1129 IH 
investigators to consider sex as a biological variable in 
preclinical research; 
Whereas such policy has improved inclusivity in women’s 
health research, but disparities still remain; 
Whereas the 2021 report entitled ‘‘The Case to Fund Wom-
en’s Health Research: An Economic and Societal Impact 
Analysis’’, published by Women’s Health Access Matters 
(commonly known as the ‘‘WHAM Report’’), states that 
in 2019, of the funding provided by the National Insti-
tutes of Health, 12 percent of the funding for Alz-
heimer’s research, 4.5 percent of the funding for coro-
nary artery disease research, and 7 percent of the fund-
ing for rheumatoid arthritis research focused on women; 
Whereas this research gap has had economic consequences, 
including— 
(1) pushing women out of the workforce to care for 
their own health or to act as caregivers; and 
(2) contributing to increased costs of health care be-
cause of delays in care; 
Whereas the improvement of women’s health relies on sex- 
and gender-based biomedical and clinical research; 
Whereas the promise of personalized medicine cannot be real-
ized without sex- and gender-based parity in research; 
Whereas the WHAM Report states that small investments in 
women’s health research will bring larger returns to the 
economy and add productive years to the workforce of 
the United States; and 
Whereas the WHAM Report shows that doubling current 
funding focused on women across Alzheimer’s disease, 
coronary artery disease, and rheumatoid arthritis is a 
$300,000,000 
investment 
that 
would 
return 
over 
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•HRES 1129 IH 
$13,000,000,000 to the economy of the United States: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses support for viewing women’s 
health as a critical issue for the economy and work-
force of the United States and for advancing the 
health and well-being of all people; and 
(2) supports efforts— 
(A) to increase health research focused on 
women, particularly for diseases that differen-
tially and disproportionately affect women; 
(B) to double the current share of women’s 
research focused on Alzheimer’s disease (12 
percent), coronary artery disease (4.5 percent), 
and rheumatoid arthritis (7 percent), which the 
2021 report entitled ‘‘The Case to Fund Wom-
en’s Health Research: An Economic and Soci-
etal Impact Analysis’’, published by Women’s 
Health Access Matters shows is a $300,000,000 
investment that will yield $13,000,000,000 in 
economic returns; 
(C) to increase awareness of the value of 
sex- and gender-based biomedical research, in-
cluding the benefits to the economy and work-
force of the United States of accelerating health 
research focused on women; and 
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