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Executive Order 14020

executive order issued by U.S. President Joe Biden

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ105886508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Executive Order 14020, officially titled Establishment of the White House Gender Policy Council, was signed on March 8, 2021, and is the 36th executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. The order established the White House Gender Policy Council.

Provisions

The purpose of this order is to achieve gender equality and promote equal rights in the United States and worldwide. This order is a strategic objective designed to reduce poverty and foster economic growth in the US with the purpose of encouraging gender equality in employment. The council is responsible for the establishment of policies to fight systematic prejudices and sexual harassment. The aim of the Order is to enhance economic security by eliminating structural obstacles to the involvement of women in the workforce and by reducing the salary and wealth disparity.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Executive Order 14020” as executive order issued by U.S. President Joe Biden. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-03-08. The account is most persuasive where Executive, Order and executive can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as executive order issued by U.S. President Joe Biden. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Executive Order 14020” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.