New York Post

Check these off Biden’s a ‘gender’

- By EMILY JACOBS With Wires

President Biden signed two executive orders on Monday advancing “gender equality” in conjunctio­n with Internatio­nal Women’s Day — amid days of tepid White House responses to the sexual-harassment scandal surroundin­g Gov. Cuomo.

The first order signed by Biden establishe­d the White House Gender Policy Council — a four-member panel initially created under President Barack Obama under a different name but disbanded by President Donald Trump — aimed at addressing “gender in policies, programs and budgets” on a “government-wide” scale.

More specifical­ly, the council is tasked with combating systemic bias and discrimina­tion, as well as sexual harassment and violence both domestical­ly and worldwide.

The second order, according to the White House, directs the Department of Education to review the Title IX regulation issued under Trump-era Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

That regulation undid the guidance put out by Obama in 2011, which told educationa­l institutio­ns that a single act of sexual harassment, “regardless of where the conduct occurred,” could prompt a Title IX investigat­ion.

Title IX refers to the 1972 law barring discrimina­tion based on sex in education.

Biden’s order directs the Education Department to “review all of its existing regulation­s, orders, guidance, and policies to ensure consistenc­y with the Biden-Harris Administra­tion’s policy that students be guaranteed education free from sexual violence.”

Neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris has personally condemned Cuomo, though White House press secretary Jen Psaki has said the two support an “independen­t investigat­ion.”

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