Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2225 Integration of women

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 32— - FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT › Part Part III— - International Organizations and Programs › § 2225

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The law asks the President to tell U.S. representatives at international organizations (for example, the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and regional development banks) to work so more women can join national economies and hold professional and policy-making jobs, improving women's status. It also asks the President to consider each organization's progress on these policies, under the World Plan of Action of the Decade for Women, when deciding U.S. funding.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2225

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The President is requested to instruct each representative of the United States to each international organization of which the United States is a member (including but not limited to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) to carry out their duties with respect to such organizations in such a manner as to encourage and promote the integration of women into the national economies of member and recipient countries and into professional and policy-making positions within such organizations, thereby improving the status of women. The President is further requested, in making United States contributions to such organizations, to take into account the progress, or lack of progress, of such organizations in adopting and implementing policies and practices which encourage and promote the integration of women into the national economies of member and recipient countries, and into professional and policy-making positions within such organizations, in accordance with the World Plan of Action of the Decade for Women.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1977—Pub. L. 95–88 inserted request that President, in making United States contributions, take into account the progress, or lack of progress, of organizations in adopting and implementing policies and practices which encourage and promote the integration of women into the national economies of member and recipient countries, and into professional and policy-making positions within such organizations, in accordance with the World Plan of Action of the Decade for Women. 1975—Pub. L. 94–161 corrected the credit to read “pt. I” rather than “pt. III”.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2225

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73