History
TITLE VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 law was what many civil rights activists had been lobbying for over many years. Title VI was made to end segregation and discrimination on the basis of color, gender, and nationality for employment. However, education was not included in TITLE VI, which caused Dr. Bernice R. Sandler, a senior scholar at the Women’s Research and Education Institute in Washington, DC, to still have to fight for her job at the University of Maryland. Dr. Sandler sought out a faculty position for which she was particularly well qualified for, but was denied the position because she came on "too strong for a woman." In 1969, Dr. Sandler gathered statistics showing how female employment at the university had gone down as qualified women were replaced by men. With the help of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL), she filed sexual discrimination complaints to 250 institutions of the Executive Order. This is one of the events which led to implementation TITLE IX.
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During 1970, there were congressional hearings on sexual discrimination. These hearings resulted in the addition of TITLE IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which amended TITLE VI of the Civil Rights Act, says, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…” Congresswoman Patsy Mink, a Japanese-American democrat from Hawaii, wrote the TITLE IX of Education Amendments of 1972 . In 1972, President Johnson was persuaded by the National