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Robbins, Lillian, Kahn, Ethel D. |
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Journal of Social Issues; Winter1985, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p1-15, 15p |
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The article discusses sex discrimination and sex equity for faculty women. The issue of equal access to education and careers for women has a long history. Viewed within the context of centuries, the earliest and most prolonged difficulties centered on permitting women to attain the status of "student." Progress took the path from individual tutorials to the opening of elementary and secondary schools to women and the gradual establishment of women's colleges. The acceptance of women to coeducational institutions put an end to a "separate but equal" doctrine—a doctrine no more palatable to women than it had been to African Americans. In contrast to a century ago, women in the United States are no longer systematically denied access to higher education. But access merely opens the door. It does not guarantee that equality occurs in school or after graduation. It is here that many problems remain and where the consequences of old and new patterns must be examined. By the 1970s, sex bias and sex discrimination in American education were seen by many as a major public policy issue. Responding to pressure. Congress passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. It is now more than a decade since sex discrimination in education was declared illegal, but the phenomenon still prevails. |
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