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...Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered more than 3,000 federally funded family planning clinics to stop prescribing a device called the Dalkon Shield, which is used by more than 2 million women. HEW also asked private physicians not to recommend it until doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the Dalkon Shield can be resolved. One recent study showed an unusually high 10% pregnancy rate among women using the Dalkon Shield (the rate for other IUDs is about 3%). More seriously, other findings indicate that pregnancy resulting from the Dalkon Shield's failure can be perilous...
LAST WEEK's HEW briefing on the new Title IX guidelines that prohibit sex discrimination by institutions receiving federal money was an ideal situation for the Boston police to demonstrate just how progressive they are. "Why not assign one of our patrolwomen to the meeting," the officer in charge probably thought. "Hell, there will probably be mostly women at the briefing anyway...
...Boston's 23 patrolwomen (out of a total force of 2601) got the nod to cover the Faneuil Hall beat for the meeting, where organizations such as the National Organization for Women and Woman Power Newsletter spent almost two hours skeptically questioning HEW's Gwenn Gregory about the new guidelines. The Boston police officer was right, you could count the number of men in the 300 occupied seats on your hands--and half of them were the camera crews for local television stations. But just in case there was any trouble the officer had assigned a big burly male sargeant...
Most institutions are beginning to follow legal guidelines prohibiting discrimination, but the spirit intended by affirmative action legislation is still lacking. And HEW is at a loss as to just what can be done about overcoming sex discrimination which exists in people's minds rather than on paper. Officials even say that women who will have a hard time building a discrimination case based upon sworn remarks such as "but she can't do it, she's a woman," rather than documented evidence of discrimination...
...Arts and Sciences reportedly gave Leonard a lot of trouble when he was trying to produce an affirmative-action plan the Department of Health, Education and Welfare would accept, and the resistance of the individual departments to affirmative action was probably the most important single reason for the HEW's only outright rejection of the plan. It's easy to understand why--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of all the faculties at Harvard, is most concerned with pure scholarship, and that seems to entail a shutting out of everything else in the world. Just as the Faculty could play...