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When the Department of Health, Education and Welfare released its first set of proposed rules to end sex discrimination in education, it drew criticism from all sides. Last week, after a year of tinkering with the original document in an effort to placate critics, HEW laid down a new set of rules. But its summer rerun is in the same old trouble. Some feminists say that HEW has been too timid. Some colleges and the National Collegiate Athletic Association say the department has come on too strong. The N.C.A.A. thinks the provision for equal opportunity for women in college sports...
...Girl Scout programs, sex-education classes and phys.-ed. classes featuring contact sports.) Pregnant girls cannot be excluded from class because of their condition. Sexual discrimination is barred in scholarship aid and admissions at the 2,700 or so federally aided colleges and universities. Despite feminist pressure, HEW refused to bar textbooks that might contain "sex stereotypes," fearing court battles on First Amendment grounds...
...enough interest in an all-girl team. In football, basketball and other contact sports, colleges and schools need not let girls try out for men's teams, but somehow must provide equal opportunity to play. Presumably this means women's teams if the demand is there, though HEW's rules do not flatly say so. Nor must schools spend as much per capita on girls' athletic programs as they do on boys'. If they did, Ohio State, for one, might have to sharply increase its spending on women's sports by slicing...
...hiring and pay procedures. The affirmative action plan comes up for a major review by the Department of Health. Education and Welfare next year, so that all the projections and several other parts of Harvard's plan will have to be revised over the summer and submitted to HEW in the fall. Federal agencies are also investigating the University's affirmative action programs following complaints from women's groups--the National Organization of Women and Women Employed at Harvard--about Harvard's foot-dragging on hiring and pay equalization. In response to similar complaints at other universities the government required...
Donald C. McLearn, a spokesman for HEW, said yesterday that although the regulations do not prohibit single-sex scholarships such as the Rhodes, they do require equal financial aid and equal scholarship opportunities for men and women...