History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2113 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Title IX
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The idea
The Education Amendments Act of nineteen seventy-two, co-authored by Patsy Mink, who had become the first Asian American woman in Congress, prohibited sex discrimination in education in its Title IX.
In practice
Mink, a Japanese American from Hawaii, in the House of Representatives.
Where people slip
Unit fourteen's Title VII covered employment; Title IX carried the principle into schools.
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