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...things that is not supposed to happen here since HEW accepted Harvard's plan is a practice called direct hiring, by which someone hires a person for a non-teaching position--anything from a secretarial post to a deanship--without first listing the opening with the Personnel Office. The idea is that people looking for a job can then know about the opening and apply for it, and that Personnel can, in the words of the affirmative action plan, "identify minority persons and women with the requisite skills for the position in question." If you believe the affirmative action plan...
...pages of regulations, HEW spelled out antidiscrimination bans under the Education Act of 1972. Carefully choosing its way through a minefield of custom, law and sensibilities in the sexual realm, HEW mapped the reforms that schools will have to make or else risk loss of federal funds and prosecution. The four main areas of change...
...failure to guarantee equal funds for women's sports as a commitment to "equality if it doesn't cost anything." In Michigan, Jo Jacobs of the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in Kalamazoo Public Schools also found the proposals wanting but was "not surprised. Most institutions, including HEW and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), are controlled by males." Kay Hutchcraft, program coordinator of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, offered a rare but cautious cheer for the new policy: it will mean "more participation for more women...
...regulations also came in for criticism. Not only are the service academies totally exempt, but in the admissions area so are preschools, elementary and nonvocational secondary schools, and public colleges that have historically been all-male or all-female. The greatest disappointment to many feminists was the failure of HEW to ban sex stereotyping in textbooks and other curricular material. The department was aware of the problem but claimed that "any specific regulatory provision would raise grave constitutional questions under the First Amendment." That failure to act, said Ann Scott, legislative vice president at the National Organization for Women...
...Back at HEW, Weinberger was pleased with the proposals. Critics will have until Oct. 15 to suggest changes; then the revised regulations will be submitted to the President for approval. Weinberger hopes to put the new rules into effect early next year. "Our role," says he, "is to be a catalyst, and we will use the full panoply of enforcement to bring about this change." But "flexibility" will be the watchword. "We don't want a backlash...