1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Act of 2020 . 2. Establishment of the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (a) In general The Secretary of State shall establish an office for the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W–GDP) under the office established in section 6(a) to lead and coordinate efforts related to the objectives set forth in subsection (b). (b) Objectives The W–GDP Initiative should be based on the following three pillars: (1) Women prospering in the workforce Advance women in the workforce by improving access to quality vocational education and skills training, enabling women to secure jobs in their local economies. (2) Women succeeding as entrepreneurs Promote women’s entrepreneurship and increase access to capital, markets, technical assistance, and mentorship. (3) Women enabled in the economy Identify and reduce the legal, regulatory, and social barriers, including disproportionate burdens of unpaid care, gender-based violence and abuse, and underinvestment in education, that constrain women’s full and free participation in the global economy and promote improved practices. (c) Sense of Congress on enabling women in the economy It is the sense of Congress that, recognizing the breadth of work necessary to address the overall enabling environment and supporting efforts related to the third pillar set forth under subsection (b)(3), it should be the policy of the United States to ensure that the United States Government promotes the following five types of foundational legal reforms: (1) Accessing institutions Lifting barriers that prevent women from fully participating in the work force, ensuring women’s authority to sign legal documents such as contracts and court documents, and addressing unequal access to courts and administrative bodies for women, whether officially, through lack of proper enforcement, or through the unequal access of education that may prevent women’s literacy. (2) Building credit Ensuring