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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...
...began its investigation of Michigan last August, and "found no evidence of discrimination." After protests by WEAL, they reopened the probe, and this October, HEW presented Michigan with a set of demands for an "affirmative action plan" which included paying reparations to women...
...requirements for an affirmative action plan differ for each university, according to the nature of complaints filed by WEAL and the findings of HEW's subsequent investigation...
...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...
...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...