Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110
§2151k Integrating Women Into National Economies; Report
Title 22 › CHAPTER 32 — FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER I — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT › Part I — Declaration of Policy; Development Assistance Authorizations › § 2151k
Summary
Give special attention to projects that help women in developing countries join and take part in their national economies and raise their status. Up to $10,000,000 each fiscal year from funds under this part and part X must be used, on terms the President decides, to encourage women's equal participation in development, mainly to boost their productivity and income. No separate development assistance program for women may be created. At least $500,000 of fiscal year 1982 funds must back programs tied to the United Nations Decade for Women.
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Title 22, §2151k
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(a)Particular programs, projects, and activities
In recognition of the fact that women in developing countries play a significant role in economic production, family support, and the overall development process of the national economies of such countries, subchapter I of this chapter shall be administered so as to give particular attention to those programs, projects, and activities which tend to integrate women into the national economies of developing countries, thus improving their status and assisting the total development effort.
(b)Assistance to encourage participation and integration of women; prohibition against separate assistance program for women
(1)Up to $10,000,000 of the funds made available each fiscal year under this part and part X of this subchapter shall be used, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, for assistance on such terms and conditions as the President may determine to encourage and promote the participation and integration of women as equal partners in the development process in the developing countries. These funds shall be used primarily to support activities which will increase the economic productivity and income earning capacity of women.
(2)Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the establishment of a separate development assistance program for women.
(c)Funds for United Nations Decade for Women
Not less than $500,000 of the funds made available under this part for the fiscal year 1982 shall be expended on international programs which support the original goals of the United Nations Decade for Women.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1990—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 101–513 inserted “and part X of this subchapter” after “this part”. 1981—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97–113 added subsec. (c). 1979—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–53 redesignated subsec. (d) as (b), and repealed former subsec. (b) which related to Presidential report to Congress on the impact of development programs, etc., on the economic integration of women. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96–53 repealed subsec. (c) which required the report under former subsec. (b) to be submitted not later than one year after Aug. 3, 1977. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96–53 redesignated subsec. (d) as (b). 1978—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–424 added subsec. (d). 1977—Pub. L. 95–88 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted provisions relating to a recognition of the fact that women in developing countries play a significant role in economic production, family support, and the overall development process of the national economies of such countries, and added subsecs. (b) and (c). 1975—Pub. L. 94–161 substituted “This subchapter” for “Sections 2151a through 2151e of this title”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
References to Subchapter I Deemed To Include Certain Parts of Subchapter IIReferences to subchapter I of this chapter are deemed to include parts IV (§ 2346 et seq.), VI (§ 2348 et seq.), and VIII (§ 2349aa et seq.) of subchapter II of this chapter, and references to subchapter II are deemed to exclude such parts. See section 202(b) of Pub. L. 92–226, set out as a note under section 2346 of this title, and section 2348c and 2349aa–5 of this title.
Effective Date
of 1979 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–53 effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 512(a) of Pub. L. 96–53, set out as a note under section 2151 of this title.
Effective Date
of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–424 effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 of Pub. L. 95–424, set out as a note under section 2151 of this title.
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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22 U.S.C. § 2151k
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
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Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110