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Thanks! I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane. In 1973 I was working at the Office for Civil Rights/DHEW in San Francisco and was part of a very early group of young women feds hired to get Titles VII and IX enforced. I can echo her astonishment at investigating sex discrimination in academia. Women were shut out of PhD programs, tenure and on and on. Loved hearing KK's appreciation of Berniece Sandler, who really set the whole course of enforcing "sex" in the CRA with her brilliance as KK says. Yay for E.O 11246!

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Thanks so much for this comment! There are so many stories that need to be told and recorded for posterity. I need to think about a good way to collect them...

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May 4Liked by Katherine M Acosta

Kathleen told her part of the story so vividly from her POV as a student. You're right, this history is going to disappear if nobody writes the book about how academia had the US government land on it in 1970-75. Hospitals, too -- they were fed contractors too and subject to the EO. Dr Sandler passed in 2019: I couldn't find a good link that might not be firewalled so here's a list: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bernice+sandler+obituary&ia=web

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