Equity for the Eighties, Annual Report 1979. Fifth Annual Report.

Overview & Synopsis

The 1979 annual report of the National Advisory Council on Women's Education Programs is presented. Topics concern the Women's Educational Equity Act, civil rights, minority women, vocational education, working women, other activities, and activities/publications of the Council. During 1979 Council members and staff worked with the Office of Education Women's Education Equity Act Program staff to develop a new regulation for the Women's Education Equity Act program. One of the special concerns was the needs of minority women. Other specific Council concerns include: new approaches to Title IX enforcement, Title IX athletics policy, sexual harassment of students, a study of sex equity in vocational education, the Youth Employment Act, the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the White House Conference on Families. Stipulations of the Women's Educational Equity Act are included. (SW)