1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Minority Women in STEM Inclusion Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in an article published in the May 2015 issue of Monthly Labor Review, there is significant heterogeneity in the STEM labor market: the academic sector is generally oversupplied, while the government sector and private industry have shortages in specific areas. (2) Women of color, particularly Black women have made significant progress in graduating from college in the areas of study related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. (3) Despite these gains, members of this group continue to be underrepresented in the STEM fields of study and related occupations, and in areas representation has remained flat or has declined. (4) Bipartisan enactment of the Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act and the Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act served as an important first step to inspire and engage women and girls in certain programs administered by NASA and the NSF. (5) Research and other developments demonstrate the need to build upon these 2 laws with intentional programs that optimize outreach to and engagement of minority women and girls in STEM-related disciplines relevant to the public and private sectors. (6) According to a Pew Research Center report, Women and Men in STEM Often at Odds Over Workplace Equality, released in January 2018, Black and Hispanic workers continue to be underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Blacks make up 11 percent of the U.S. workforce overall but represent 9 percent of STEM workers, while Hispanics comprise 16 percent of the U.S. workforce but only 7 percent of all STEM workers. (7) A report published by the National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering 2017 provides that the percentages are particularly low for Black and Hispanic women, who make up 7 percent and 8 percent of the