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...HEW investigations were sparked by pressure from WEAL, a Washington-based group including several Congresswomen, to enforce a 1968 government order prohibiting sex discrimination. WEAL has filed charges with the HEW against 200 colleges and universities...
...HEW investigators visited Harvard last Spring as part of a routine study of minority group hiring practices and, according to Whitlook, simply for lack of time excluded two areas from the study-the relationship between the Medical School and its teaching hospitals regarding employment of blacks, and the whole area of possible sex discrimination...
Harvard has already submitted one affirmative action plan dealing with minority group employment to HEW,Whitlock said, but the plan was "unacceptable"-not, however, "rejected...
However, Roberta Benjamin, president of Boston Now-which joined the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) last November in charging that an earlier HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices was a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women-said yesterday that "someone connected with Harvard" had told her that the University has thus far submitted two tentative plans dealing with women, both of which were rejected...
...Michigan letter was the first time anyone ever heard of HEW requiring affirmative action plans on women," Whitlock said. "No plan has been rejected or submitted...