Word: equalizing
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President Derek C. Bok named Ed School Assistant Dean John B. Williams to become his special assistant for minority affairs, a post that has been vacant for more than a year. Williams will direct Harvard's affirmative action and equal opportunity programs and report directly...
Demonstrating that Harvard remains committed to affirmative action "is particularly important in light of the present trend at the national level to de-emphasize the necessity for equal employment opportunity programs," Bok continued...
Although Williams's current Ed School job does not directly address affirmative action issues, he has worked on equal opportunity programs for the New Jersey State Department of Education and the National Institute of Education...
...sectors of the population with vested interests in the issue. It is a reassuring sign for feminism that both the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, which is sponsoring the local referendum, and the New Yorkbased Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (F.A.C.T.) were on hand to pamphlet the conferences with equal vigor...
FROM MALE DOMINATION TO EQUAL PARTNERSHIP! So read a headline last week in the Geneva daily La Suisse, hailing the result of a national referendum on equal marriage rights for women. The vote in favor, however, was a less-than- overwhelming 54.7%. Sexual equality has come late to Switzerland, which adopted women's suffrage at the federal level only 14 years ago and an equal rights amendment a decade later. Still on the books until last week were laws enshrining the husband's right to choose his family's place of residence, prevent his wife from working, and manage...