Word: weal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a Washington-based group whose members include several Congresswomen, has put pressure on HEW to enforce a 1968 government order prohibiting sex discrimination. WEAL has filed charges with the HEW against 200 colleges and universities...
...just don't know why it's taking so long at Harvard," said Bernice Sandler, a leader of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) and chairman of WEAL's Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance in Education...
Calling Harvard "one of the worst offenders concerning discrimination against women in the academic community," the WEAL letter called HEW's findings "a complete whitewash of the charges made concerning sex discrimination...
...letter was signed by Bernice Sandler, chairman of the WEAL Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance in Education...
...letter-dated the following day-echoes the charges in the WEAL letter, adding, "NOW urges that top priority be given to the area of sex discrimination in the Harvard investigation, that the staff responsibility for the investigation include women at alllevels, and that any further letters of finding and proposed affirmative action plans be made public so that their full value may be assessed by those most directly concerned, i.e. women in the University...