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To authorize workshops to eliminate gender bias for women in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and for other purposes. 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.[...]

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  • 10/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
  • 09/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
  • 09/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
  • 09/10/2007 - 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.
  • 09/10/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor

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Bill Text
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H.R.3514 Introduced in House09/13/2007