Sec. 1207. Implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017
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During the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2025, the Secretary of Defense shall undertake activities consistent with the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ; 131 Stat. 1202) and with the guidance specified in this section, including— establishing Department of Defense-wide policies and programs that advance the implementation of that Act, including military doctrine and Department-specific and combatant command-specific programs; ensuring the Department sufficient personnel to serve as gender advisors, including by hiring and training full-time equivalent personnel, as necessary, and establishing roles, responsibilities, and requirements for gender advisors; the deliberate integration of gender analysis into relevant training for members of the Armed Forces across ranks, as described in the Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–428 ; 132 Stat. 5509); and security cooperation activities that further the implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ; 131 Stat. 1202).
Consistent with the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ; 131 Stat. 1202), the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall seek to incorporate gender analysis and participation by women, as appropriate, into the institutional and national security force capacity-building activities of security cooperation programs carried out under title 10, United States Code, including by— incorporating gender analysis and women, peace, and security priorities, including sex-disaggregated data, into educational and training materials and programs authorized by section 333 of title 10, United States Code; advising on the recruitment, employment, development, retention, and promotion of women in such national security forces, including by— identifying existing military career opportunities for women; exposing women and girls to careers available in such national security forces and the skills necessary for such careers; and encouraging women's and girls' interest in such careers by highlighting as role models women of the United States and applicable foreign countries in uniform; addressing sexual harassment and abuse against women within such national security forces; integrating gender analysis into security sector policy, planning, and training for such national security forces; and improving infrastructure to address the requirements of women serving in such national security forces, including appropriate equipment for female security and police forces.
Partner country assessments conducted in the course of Department security cooperation activities to build the capacity of the national security forces of foreign countries shall include attention to the barriers and opportunities with respect to strengthening recruitment, employment, development, retention, and promotion of women in the military forces of such partner countries. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall initiate a process to establish standardized policies described in subsection (a)(1).
The Secretary of Defense may use funds authorized to be appropriated in each fiscal year to the Department of Defense for operation and maintenance as specified in the table in section 4301 for carrying out the full implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ; 131 Stat. 1202) and the guidance on the matters described in paragraphs
(1)through
(4)of subsection
(a)and subparagraphs
(A)through
(E)of subsection (b)(1). Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter through 2025, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the steps the Department has taken to implement the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ; 131 Stat. 1202), including— a description of the progress made on each matter described in paragraphs
(1)through
(4)of subsection
(a)and subparagraphs
(A)through
(E)of subsection (b)(1); and an identification of the amounts used for such purposes. In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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Sec. 1207
Implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017
Stat.131 Stat. 1202
Stat.132 Stat. 5509
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