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This bill would expand the mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to include supporting women entrepreneurs in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

It also notes that women are underrepresented in those fields even if they attained a STEM degree, and that women with those academic backgrounds are often successful entrepreneurs.

Specifically, this bill would authorize the NSF to “encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.”

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