Pittenger Calls for
Citing three {pars of effort
to eliminate sexism in
education in Pennsylvania,
Education Secretary John C.
Pittenger told U. S.
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare of
ficials that “not only en
forcement but also clear
leadership is required from
government if change is to
occur”.
Pittenger delivered
testimony on proposed
regulations to Title IX,
Higher Education Amend
ments Act of 1972, the con
troversial rules defining
nrohibition of sex
discrimination in education
and education employment.
Pittenger preceded his
comments on the proposed
regulations with a view of
Pennsylvania’s progress in
the elimination of sexism. He
said:
“More than three years
ago, immediately following
the ratification of an equal
rights amendment to the
Pennsylvania Constitution,
we conducted a year-long
study of sexism in both basic
and higher education.”
The study was undertaken
at the initiative of Penn
sylvanians for Women’s
Rights with the Penn
sylvania Human Relations
Commission. The study
revealed “widespread sex
discrimination at every level
of our education system,”
Pittenger said. “I believe we
were representative of the
nation on that score.”
Moves to change that
condition, Pittenger said,
included his issuing a series
of guidelines to all public
elementary and secondary
schools and all state-owned,
state-related, and com
munity colleges and
universities. The guidelines
indicated specific steps the
institutions might take to end
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sexism in curriculum, co
currlcular activities,
guidance and counseling,
employment practices,
library materials, ad
missions, housing, and other
areas of school life.
New offices of Equal
Rights and Equal Op
portunity were created at the
basic and higher education
levels of the Pennsylvania
Department of Education to
work toward the priority of
eliminating sexism and
racism, Pittenger added.
Basic education
regulations were modified
by the State Board of
Education to include
women’s studies and in
tergroup concepts relative to
ending sexism, as well.
Continuing activities in
clude developing
publications to aid schools in
ending sexism and quarterly
meetings with represen
tatives of women’s rights
groups and state com
missions dealing with
problems of sexism and
racism.
In tHe context of that ex
perience, Pittenger said, he
would like “to see the
regulations provide for a
defined state role, par
ticularly where a state has
demonstrated leadership in
the elimination of sexism.”
Pittenger testified that the
Department of Educatidn
supports equalized benefit
plans for education in
stitution employees. This
would provide equal
payments and equal benefits
with the mandated use of
non-sex-differentiated
premium tables. Addressing
himself to HEW Secretary
Caspar Weinberger, Pit
tenger said:
“Our experience is that the
actuarial method upon which
sex-differentiation is based
is, at the very least, highly
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Women are subject to the
same stress, diesease, and
injury as men when they
engage in sustained careers
outside the home, Pittenger
noted. “Differences in life
expectancy would appear
more closely related to
lifestyle factors than to sex
in and of itself,” he said. He
cited conclusions reached by
the Pennsylvania Insurance
Commissioner’s Advisory
Task Force on Women’s
Insurance Problems.
Pittenger said the
department also is pleased
with the regulations relating
to. fringe benefits for per
manent, part-time em
ployees.
“Specifically, we support
the concept of prorated
fringe benefits for all per
manent, part-time em
ployees., Suph benefits are
only fair and equitable
regardless of the sex of the
individual employee.
Establishing this concept
now will provide important
leadership for the future, as
staffing patterns become
more varied in response to
the changing life modes of
both men and women in our
society,” he said.
“Equally important,
clearly, is the role this
principle will play in ending
an age-old discriminatory
practice with a disparate
effect against women, who
have borne heavy respon
sibilities in the home and
thus in many cases have
been able to work outside the
home only on a part-time
basis.
“Finally, the provision of
prorated benefits will help
nut to rest the devastating
myth that women work only
for pin money.”
Pittenger told HEW that
there are large areas of the
proposed regulations “which
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we enthusiastically sup
port”. Among them, he
listed:
The requirement of
coeducational programs and
activities, including health
and physical education,
industrial, business, and
other courses;
Regulations ending unfair
and “often costly housing
rules and requirements so
common in higher
education”;
Coverage of education
programs and activities,
including those programs
not operated by the schools
but conducted in school
facilities or by school per
sonnel;
Equalized Health and
Insurance Benefits, and
Equal treatment of per
sons without regard to
marital or parental status.
Pittenger said he was
concerned that the
“remedial and affirmative
action concepts developed in
the proposed regulations ...
do not adequately convey the
principle of recipient
responsibility.”
An important part of the
regulations, he said, is in
encouraging recognition of
the principle that receipt of
federal assistance
automatically makes it
incumbent upon the
recipient to identify, change,
and guard against
discriminatory practices.
In a series of questions,
Pittenger challenged HEW
to strengthen the regulations
to include assurances from
state recipients that
discrimination has been
studied, changes made, and
affirmative actions taken to
overcome “past exclusion,
purposeful or inadvertent.”
Pittenger also pointed out
that while the proposed
regulations “very laudably”
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eliminate sex-segregation in
physical education in
struction, “they are
regrettably weak” in the
area of interscholastic
athletics. He also called
them “obscure on the whole
issue of intramurals”.
Attaching copies of
guidelines recommended by
the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Education school
districts to his testimony,
Pittenger said that similar
guidelines should be in
cluded in the regulations to
encourage self-examination
of curriculum and in
structional materials. Pit
tenger suggested that states
and school districts should
analyze and prepare
schedules for achieving a
more representative por
trayal in textbooks and other
materials of the roles,
problems, and contributions
of women.”
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Plttenger concluded his
testimony with the offer of
“the continuing services of
my staff” and their three
years’ experience in the
elimination of sexism in
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