Women's Educational Equity Act

Women'S Educational Equity Act (1974), passed as part of the Special Projects Act contained in the Education Amendments of 1974. The purpose of the act was to promote educational equality for women in the United States, an equality that Congress had mandated two years before in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Amendments. The act also authorized federal grants to develop and evaluate curricula and textbooks; to promote educational equity for disabled women and girls; to help unemployed women and female dropouts; and to encourage women to develop math and science skills. In 1991 Congress appropriated about $2 million to achieve these goals.

Bibliography

U.S. Department of Education. Women's Educational Equity, Act Program: Report of Activities, 1988–1992. Washington, D.C.: 1992.

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The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEAA) is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education. WEAA was enacted as part of P.L. 93-380. Introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Congresswoman Patsy Mink of Hawaiʻi, the legislation was conceived and drafted by Arlene Horowitz, a staff assistant to the education subcommittee on which Rep. Mink served. WEEA was intended to combat sex-role stereotyping in elementary and secondary schools primarily.

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