IV 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 706 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 19, 2018 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Wasserman Schultz , Ms. Jackson Lee , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mr. Rush , Mrs. Lawrence , Mr. Foster , and Mr. Moulton ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of a Women’s Health Research Day .

Whereas women constitute 50.4 percent of Americans; Whereas women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups experience many diseases and disorders differently than men; Whereas the incidence, prevalence, symptomology, and severity of disease may differ between men and women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups; Whereas women and men have fundamental biological differences; Whereas women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups vary in the risks and benefits of medical therapies; Whereas for many years, women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups were underrepresented in biomedical and clinical research; Whereas the improvement of women’s health relies on sex- and gender-based biomedical and clinical research; Whereas the promise of individualized medicine cannot be realized without sex- and gender-based parity in research; Whereas, on January 25, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented a policy requiring federally funded investigators to consider sex as a biological variable in preclinical research; and Whereas this policy ushered in a new era of inclusivity and parity in women’s health research: Now, therefore, be it