The Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act outlines many of the challenges that women face in getting access to finance and other barriers to economic empowerment including land rights, health, and violence. It directs USAID to work to improve access to finance, reduce gender disparities, eliminate gender-based violence, support women's property and land rights, and improve education, among other things. The bill states that the USAID administrator will need to ensure that the strategies, projects, and activities of the Agency are shaped by a gender analysis; standard indicators are used to assess such strategies, projects, and activities, if applicable; and gender equality and female empowerment are integrated throughout the Agency's program cycle and related processes for purposes of strategic planning, project design and implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. USAID will be required to submit a report to Congress about the implementation of the act and what actions it has taken to improve gender policies within a year of the bill being enacted. A few of the barriers to women's economic empowerment are reflected in the bill, including exclusion from financial services, from access to bank accounts to credit and financial mentorship. The bill focuses on financial inclusion of women and gives USAID the authority to program in a way that can expand those opportunities for women.