The Small Business Administration won't implement a long-delayed program setting aside federal contracts for women-owned businesses for at least three more months - unless Congress forces it to move faster.

SBA Administrator Steven Preston said the agency has made substantial changes to the program's original rules for the program, based on comments from government agencies and the public. The new version also includes a Rand Corp. study that identified industries where women have been underrepresented in federal contracting.

The SBA submitted the revised rule to agencies Oct. 3. Agencies will have 90 days to review it, and then it will be published for public comment, Preston said.

This means the program probably won't be up and running until sometime in 2008. SBA officials said earlier this year that they expected to implement the program by Oct. 1, the beginning of the federal government's fiscal year.
no mention of contracts awarded to men in industries overly represented by women?

Isnt it wonderful that while men are dying in iraq and afghanistan...that our government is using their lives as fodder and manure to promote and propagandize women at the expense of men excluded from business because they are giving their lives to serve their country and defend our freedoms.

yes yes its a volunteer army and isnt it wonderful that there is so much energy spent on women in math and science at the expense of boys in reading, writing and speeking..to the point where they drop out, turn to drugs or alcohol, crime or jail or the military.

isnt it wonderful that while our government views men as general issue toilet paper for the military our government is also exempting women from the military and promoting their feminist baby killing agenda into the highest levels of corporate america and corridors of government.