A Matter of Simple Justice: The Report of the President's Task Force on Women's Rights and ResponsibilitiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 33 páginas |
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14th amendments 5th and 14th action administration Advisory Council ALAN SIMPSON American Women Amicus Curiae based on sex benefit BLACKHAM burden of enforcement child Civil Rights Act deduction Department of Labor discrimination against women Discrimination in education discrimination in employment DOROTHY HAENER economic employees Equal Employment Opportunity Equal Rights Amendment Establishment Executive Order 11246 exempt Fair Labor Standards families headed family assistance plan Federal government girls household employment husband inequities Labor Department Labor Standards Act laws leadership legislation Manpower ment minimum wage minority national origin needs Negro women Office of Education Office of Women's percent persons President President's Commission priority proposed race discrimination Rights and Responsibilities Secretary of Labor sex discrimination sex in public Social Security Act spouse Status of Women Task Force recommends tion Title VII U.S. Department welfare white women wife wives Women's Bureau women's groups Women's Rights women's unit workers
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Página 9 - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution; and (3) appraise the laws and policies of the Federal Government with respect to equal protection of the laws under the Constitution.
Página 8 - All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
Página 6 - State, or to a religious corporation, association, or society with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association, or society of its religious activities or to an educational institution with respect to the employment of individuals to perform work connected with the educational activities of such institution.
Página 7 - Act of 1964 Should Be Amended To Authorize the Attorney General to Aid Women and Parents of Minor Girls in Suits Seeking Equal Access to Public Education, and To Require the Office of Education To Make a Survey Concerning the Lack of Equal Educational Opportunities for Individuals by Reason of Sex. Discrimination in education is one of the most damaging injustices women suffer. It denies them equal education and equal employment opportunity, contributing to a second class self image.
Página 19 - President's Commission on the Status of Women, American Women, p. 30, 1963. * President's Commission on the Status of Women, Report of the Committee on Private Employment, 1963.
Página 9 - State universities, a law requiring longer prison sentences for women than for men for the same offense, and a law prohibiting women from working as bartenders (but not in the less lucrative jobs as waitresses in bars) . At the State level there are numerous laws regulating marriage, guardianship, dependents, property ownership, independent business...
Página 4 - It is ironic that the basic rights women seek through this amendment are guaranteed all citizens under the Constitution. The applicability of the 5th and 14th amendments in parallel cases involving racial bias has been repeatedly tested and sustained, a process which has taken years and has cost millions of dollars. The Supreme Court, however, has thus far not accorded the protection of those amendments to female citizens. It has upheld or refused to review laws and practices making discriminatory...
Página vi - The President Should Appoint More Women to Positions of Top Responsibility in All Branches of the Federal Government, To Achieve a More Equitable Ratio of Men and Women. Cabinet and Agency Heads Should Be Directed To Issue Firm Instructions That Qualified Women Receive Equal Consideration in Hiring and Promotions.
Página 22 - Early and definitive court pronouncement, particularly by the US Supreme Court, is urgently needed with regard to the validity under the 5th and 14th amendments of laws and official practices discriminating against women, to the end that the principle of equality become firmly established in constitutional doctrine.
Página 7 - For this reason counselors and parents frequently guide young women into the "feminine" occupations without regard to interests, aptitudes and qualifications. Only 5.9 percent of our law students and 8.3 percent of our medical students are women,4 although according to the Office of Education women tend to do better than men on tests for admission to law and medical school. Section 402 of Title IV, passed in 1964, required the Commissioner of Education to conduct a survey of the extent of discrimination...