text: SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
  
      Congress finds the following:
              (1) According to a 2003 Government Accountability Office 
          report, even after accounting for factors such as occupation, 
          industry, race, marital status, job tenure, and differing work 
          patterns, all of which affect earnings, women are paid, on 
          average, 80 cents compared to every dollar that men are paid.
              (2) According to the same report, the earnings gap between 
          men and women has persisted without statistically significant 
          changes for the past two decades.
              (3) According to a 2001 report by the Bureau of Labor 
          Statistics, the earnings gap among working men and women is 
          widest among parents.
              (4) Some women choose to trade advancing in their careers 
          or higher earnings for a job offering the flexibility to manage 
          family responsibilities alongside work.
              (5) According to a 2001 Government Accountability Office 
          study, in 1995 and 2000, female full-time managers earned less 
          than their male counterparts.
              (6) According to the same study, in 7 of the 10 industries 
          studied, the earnings gap between female and male full-time 
          managers actually widened between 1995 and 2000.
              (7) Women make up 46 percent of the workforce but represent 
          just 12 percent of all corporate officers.
              (8) A reason for the continuing earnings disparity might be 
          discrimination as to which roles are considered acceptable for 
          men and women and how women are viewed in the workplace.
              (9) According to the February 2004 Monthly Labor Review of 
          the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Labor 
          projects that the United States work force is growing at a rate 
          of 1 percent per year, in part due to the continually increased 
          presence of women.
  
  SEC. 2. CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND WORKPLACE POLICY.
  
      (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Labor shall make a grant to an 
  eligible university to establish the ``Center for the Study of Women 
  and Workplace Policy'' (referred to in this Act as the ``Center'').
      (b) Use of Funds.--
              (1) Compilation and analysis of data.--The Center 
          established under subsection (a) shall compile and analyze 
          available data and data sets on the difference between the 
          earnings of men and women, including the Panel Study of Income 
          Dynamic housed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and 
          to identify factors which affect differences in earnings.
              (2) Dissemination of findings.--The Center shall--
                      (A) disseminate its findings annually to the 
                  public, using a website and any other appropriate 
                  means; and
                      (B) maintain a website to serve as a clearinghouse 
                  for the data and findings of relevant recent studies.
              (3) Best practices guides.--Each year, the Center shall 
          publish one best practices guide, as follows:
                      (A) Best practices guide for businesses.--Not later 
                  than one year after the Center is established under 
                  subsection (a), the Center shall publish a best 
                  practices guide for businesses containing recommended 
                  guidelines for--
                              (i) workplace equity;
                              (ii) retaining women in the workplace; and
                              (iii) promoting a family-friendly 
                          workplace.
                      (B) Best practices guide for families.--Not later 
                  than one year after the publication of the best 
                  practices guide for businesses under subparagraph (A), 
                  the Center shall publish a best practices guide for 
                  families, containing information about--
                              (i) the policies of various employers 
                          relating to workplace equity, retaining women 
                          in the workplace, and promoting a family-
                          friendly workplace;
                              (ii) strategies for addressing inequity in 
                          the workplace; and
                              (iii) recent findings on inequity in the 
                          workplace.
                      (C) Subsequent editions.--The Center shall update, 
                  revise, and publish a subsequent edition of each of the 
                  best practices guides under subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
                  once every two years after the initial publication of 
                  each guide.
      (c) Eligible University.--In this Act, the term ``eligible 
  university'' means a public university--
              (1) with a school of public policy, a school of business, a 
          center devoted to the education of women, and social research 
          facilities;
              (2) at which research is conducted on--
                      (A) gender differences and levels of achievement in 
                  the careers of faculty members employed by institutions 
                  of higher education;
                      (B) work experiences of non-tenure-track faculty 
                  members employed by such institutions;
                      (C) policies of such institutions with respect to 
                  work and family for tenure-track faculty members; and
                      (D) the number of women employed as chief executive 
                  officers and directors at large publicly-held 
                  companies; and
              (3) which has designed or is in the process of designing a 
          national clearinghouse for information concerning gender 
          differences and levels of achievement in the careers of faculty 
          members and work and family policies and issues affecting 
          faculty members which includes citations to research and 
          examples of relevant policies and practices.
      (d) Report.--Not later than 12 months after receiving a grant under 
  this Act, the recipient shall submit to the Secretary and to Congress a 
  report documenting how the university used the grant funds and 
  evaluating the level of success of the Center funded by the grant.
      (e) Amount of Grant.--For each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, 
  the Secretary shall provide a grant in the amount of $1,000,000 to an 
  eligible university to carry out this Act.
target: Directs the Secretary of Labor to make a grant, to a public university with specified characteristics, to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy.
  
  Requires the Center to: (1) compile and analyze available data and data sets on the difference between the earnings of men and women, including the Panel Study of Income Dynamic housed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and to identify factors which affect differences in earnings; and (2) disseminate findings, maintain a website as a clearinghouse, and publish an annual best practices guide.
feat_title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to make a grant to a public university to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy.