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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED117860 AUTHOR: Saario, Terry N.
TITLE: Instituting Change to Promote Sex Equality.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 14 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Convention of
the
American Association of School Administrators (108th,
Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 20-23, 1976)
ABSTRACT: The recent history and an interpretation of
legislation promoting sex equality in
education--principally
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972--are
presented.
Examples of men and women, as a group, treated differently
are cited in the areas of administrative positions,
vocational education programs, physical education, and high
school sports programs. A series of steps administrators
can
take to promote sex equality in public schools is followed
by the Title IX provisions specifying five tasks that are
to
be completed by educational agencies receiving federal
funds. (MLF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrators-; Athletics-; Elementary
Secondary-Education; Equal-Education; Sex-Stereotypes;
Vocational-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Change-Strategies;
*Federal-Legislation; *Sex-Discrimination
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