On March 2, Democrat representative Eddie Johnson introduced a bill to congress called H.R. 889: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2011. The purpose of this bill is “to provide for fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering, and for other purposes.”
This bill would require demographic information on federal grants awarded via the National Science Foundation (NSF), and would require the Office of Science and Technology Policy to conduct workshops that will educate others in preventing gender bias in the evaluation stage of federal research grant proposals. The bill has been referred to a congressional committee for further research.
If you support this bill, let your congressional representative(s) know! You can find out how to contact your representative(s) here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
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