Jun 23, 2016 | Nixon TV, Women's Affairs
[youtube https://youtu.be/5kNG78T9N5c] On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX into law — effectively barring sex discrimination in school sports and academics.
Apr 5, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Women's Affairs
As UConn and Syracuse face off tonight in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, we look back on President Nixon’s signing of Title IX.As a result of the groundbreaking law, any school that receives federal funds – from elementary to...
Sep 1, 2015 | News, Women's Affairs
President Nixon appointed Barbara Franklin to oversee efforts at appointing more women to high-level positions in government. In the final months leading up to the 1972 election, President Nixon signed into law two pieces of legislation that addressed gender equality...
Sep 1, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
On October 1, 1969, President Nixon established the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities to study the status of women in American life and to recommend what could be done on the governmental level to improve their lives and advance...
Jun 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
In a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments and agencies dated April 21, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a program to recruit top women for mid- and high-level positions in the federal government. The president wrote, “it has been my desire to...
Jun 17, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
Historically speaking, women have been consigned to the confines of the private, domestic sphere; tradition dictates that women are the homemaker, the caregiver, and the mother. However, how has this tradition been reconciled with the trend of women moving into the...
