"On Monday, Joe Biden will sign yet another executive order that will establish a White House Gender Policy Council, which will “ensure that the Biden-Harris Administration advances gender equity and equal rights and opportunity for women and girls.”
This comes after Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office that effectively destroyed girls’ sports.
Here’s how the White House says the council will function.
The Council will work in coordination with the existing policy councils to advance gender equity and equality, including by:
- Combatting systemic bias and discrimination, including sexual harassment;
- Increasing economic security and opportunity by addressing the structural barriers to women’s participation in the labor force, decreasing wage and wealth gaps, and addressing the caregiving needs of American families and supporting care workers, predominantly low-paid women of color;
- Ensuring access to comprehensive health care and preventing and responding to gender-based violence;
- Promoting equity and opportunity in education and leadership; and
- Advancing gender equality globally through diplomacy, development, trade, and defense, and by recognizing the needs and roles of women and girls in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, democratic rights-respecting governance, global health and humanitarian crises and development assistance...Read all.
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