; and (ii) the chief corporate officer and a majority of the board of directors of such concern are women. (B) Applicability The requirements of subparagraph (A) shall apply for the 2-year period beginning on the date on which the majority of the stock of such concern was acquired by an employee stock ownership plan or eligible worker-owned cooperative. . (e) Small business concerns owned and controlled by service-Disabled veterans Section 36 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 657f ) by adding at the end the following: (j) Concerns owned by employee stock ownership plans or eligible worker-Owned cooperatives (1) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purposes of determining ownership and control of a concern under this section for award of a contract through a competition restricted to small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, any interest in such concern held by an employee stock ownership plan or an eligible worker-owned cooperative, shall be treated in the same manner as an interest held by the service-disabled veterans upon whom eligibility is based if— (A) such concern was a small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans prior to the sale to an employee stock ownership plan or an eligible worker-owned cooperative