Discrimination Against Women. Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives.
[Education]. Discrimination Against Women. Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives Ninety-first Congress Second Session of Section 805 of H.R. 16098…Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970.
2 vols., 8vo.; speckled gray wrappers, lightly worn.
First edition of a compilation of hearings from June 17-July 31, 1970; printed for the Committee on Education and Labor, Carl D. Perkins, Chairman; and for the purpose of:
prohibit[ing] discrimination against women in federally assisted programs and in employment in education; to extend the equal pay act so as to prohibit discrimination in administrative, professional and executive employment; and to extend the jurisdiction of the U.S. Commission of civil rights to include sex.
Held at the height of the Women’s Liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which raised the consciousness of women’s oppression in society through such tactics as public demonstrations, media attention, feminist publications, and radical guerilla techniques, the Discrimination Hearings sought to eliminate the discrimination against women in federally funded positions. The Honorable Edith Green offered these opening remarks to the Committee:
It seems ironic that in a period when we are more concerned with civil rights and liberties than ever before in our history—when minorities have vigorously asserted themselves—that discrimination against a very important majority—women—has been given little attention.
Increasingly women are constituting a greater proportion of our labor force. As of April of this year there were 31,293,000 women the in labor market constituting nearly 40 percent of the total.
However, despite the growth in the number of women working today, the proportion of women in the professions is lower in this country than in most countries throughout the world.
While the United States prides itself in being a leader of nations, it has been backward in its treatment of its working women.
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