Word: weal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women's groups, notably Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) protested the committee on the grounds of possible collusion between HEW and the presidents...
...order which the Department of Labor released on January 30, 1970. The order, Title 4, requires Federal contractors to submit a general plan for ending discrimination, and also to set goals and timetables for correcting existing situations in the affirmative action plan. This came out at the same time WEAL and other women's groups began using their new-found legal resources...
...Women did everything from demanding to see the Secretary of Labor to letter campaigns; at one point, they (the government) were receiving so many letter they had to hire a full-time letter reader," a WEAL spokesman explained. "Because of the publicity and pressure, women were asked to come in and give comments on the order. There was a very direct result from this pressure...the government never moves until someone puts on pressure...
Revised order no, four came out almost two years later, after women from WEAL and NOW were consulted on the draft. The revised order required that the affirmative action plans contain a "utilization analysis" for women as well as for minorities, as was previously required. The definition of "Underutilization" of women is slightly different from that of minorities; the proportion of minority members on the work force is to be defined by the "minority population of the labor area surrounding the facility" while the acceptable proportion of women is to depend on "the availability of women seeking employment...
There is no doubt that the women's movement has had a tremendous impact on bringing out these subtle attitudes. Women are not only "the newest, largest, fastest growing advocacy group on campuses," as one WEAL spokesman put it, but perhaps their greatest political impact will be seen as they infiltrate all levels of the organizations they are pressuring...