Gender Bias Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3514
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil rights enforcement
Colleges
Conferences
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Engineering
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Mathematics
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Sex discrimination
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House