FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATIONJanuary 8, 2021Linda Darling-Hammond, Director of the Biden-Harris Education Transition Team andthe Transition TeamDear Dr. Darling-Hammond and the Department of Education Transition Team,The undersigned organizations, all of whom support greatly increased attention toeducational equity, recommend that the Biden-Harris Department of Education (ED)prioritize establishing an Office for Gender Equity reporting to the Secretary ofEducation as soon as possible. This Office is the first priority in a longer letter sent tothe transition teams by the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education.Creation of an Office for Gender Equity is critical in restoring and ensuring opportunity,safety, and gender equity in education particularly as the Department of Educationrectifies the 2020 changes to the Title IX Regulations and withdrawal of importantGuidance documents by the Trump Administration and as it advances initiatives toensure educational opportunity for all. The Office for Gender Equity is immediatelyneeded to obtain public input on revising theTitle IX regulations relating to sexualharassment and assault and other rescinded guidance on transgender individuals andTitle IX Coordinators. It is also crucial that the new Biden-Harris Department ofEducation show proactive gender equity leadership to help establish an effectivenational infrastructure of Title IX Coordinators and other gender equity experts toimplement full eradication of long-standing sex discrimination with attention tocompounded discrimination based on race, disability, English Language Learners,immigration, pregnancy/parenting, and LGBTQ status in education. An Office forGender Equity is also needed to coordinate policy and make high quality gender equityresources including research, policies, training, and student materials available to thepublic by re-establishing a Gender Equity Web-based Resource Center to serve alllevels from pre-k to higher and adult education.We recommend that the Department create the Office for Gender Equityadministratively, with its Director reporting to the Secretary of Education. This office isalso proposed in the Gender Equity Education Act (GEEA), and a Special Assistant forGender Equity was authorized in the Department of Education Organization Act. Aproactive ED Office for Gender Equity would also complement the parallel officescharged with leadership and coordination on gender issues in federal health agencies,Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of State.The gender equity community has been a long-time supporter of the GEEA and itspredecessor, the Women’s Educational Equity Act (WEEA), which was the only federallegislation specifically focused on implementing Title IX. The current version of GEEA-the Patsy T. Mink and Louise K. Slaughter Gender Equity Education Act of 2019-201
(S. 1964, HR 3513) sponsored by Senator Mazie Hirono and Representative DorisMatsui outlines the many responsibilities of the Office, such as policy making, training,dissemination, and federal coordination within ED as well as with other governmentoffices. It also emphasizes the need for intersectional approaches to gender and othercivil rights protections.Hopefully, when the 117th Congress passes GEEA, the existing Office for Gender Equitywould assume responsibility for implementing the GEEA grants program to expand thenecessary gender equity infrastructure, including well-trained Title IX Coordinators andgender equity experts. As appropriate, the Office for Gender Equity would also be homefor other legislative gender equity programs, dealing with sexual harassment andassault, STEM, athletics and of course it would coordinate closely with the Office forCivil Rights (OCR) and White House equity initiatives.Establishing an Office for Gender Equity at the beginning of the Biden-HarrisAdministration is an important and unmistakable signal of support for gender equityleadership. It gives the Biden-Harris Administration a head start on strengthening theDepartment’s capacity to address gender equity and will be an important asset insecuring passage and needed implementation funding for GEEA and other civil rightslegislation.We urge the Transition Team to recommend the establishment of an Office for GenderEquity in the Biden-Harris Department of Education as soon as possible. Thank you foryour consideration.Cordially,Feminist Majority Foundation-Eleanor Smeal, President andSue Klein, Ed.D, Education Equity Director.Organizations that signed as of 1-8-21: (117 organizations)1st Amendment-1st Vote, Inc.Activism Caucus of the Association for Women in PsychologyAlcyone LLCAllies Reaching for EquityAmerican Association of University Women (AAUW)Arkansas Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, Equity Assistance CenterAugustus F. Hawkins FoundationAutistic Self NetworkBHS Stop HarassingBRAV ConsultationsCalifornia National Organization for WomenCasa de Esperanza: National Latin@Network for Healthy Families and CommunitiesCatholics for ChoiceCenter for Advancement of Public Policy2
Center for Partnership StudiesCentral New York NOW ChapterChampion WomenCharlottesville National Organization for WomenClaremont Graduate University-Applied Gender StudiesClearinghouse on Women’s IssueCoalition of Labor Union WomenCollin CollegeCommittee for Equity in Women’s SurfingDemocratic Womens Club of The Villages, FLDisability Rights New YorkDisplaced Homemakers Network of New Jersey, Inc.Durham NOW, Pauli Murray ChapterEast Valley IndivisiblesEducation Law Center-PAEqual Means EqualEnd Rape on CampusERA CoalitionFeminist Majority FoundationFlorida NOWFlorida NOW Education FundGender & Sexuality Studies Program at The University of MiamiGirls Inc.Girls on the Run InternationalGuam Department of EducationHealthy Teen NetworkHigh School Title IX Consulting Services, LLCHollywood Chapter, National Organization for WomenIllinois Accountability InitiativeIndiana NOWInstitute for Women’s Policy ResearchJapanese American Citizens LeagueJewish Women InternationalJustice for Migrant WomenLangelan & AssociatesLegal Momentum, the Women’s Legal Defense and Education FundLiberal Ladies Who Lunch of SE KansasLoudoun County NOWMANA, A National Latina OrganizationMaryland Commission for WomenMaryland National Organization for WomenMaryland Women’s Heritage CenterMichigan NOW Fund’s Heritage CenterMichigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health (MOASH)Monmouth County Democratic Women’s CaucusMonroe County NOW3
Montgomery County MD Chapter, National Organization for WomenMs. MagazineMulticultural DimensionsNational Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE)National Center for Transgender EqualityNational Congress of Black Women, IncNational Council of Negro Women, Inc.National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance, IncNational Organization for WomenNational Organization for Women, AlaskaNational Organization for Women, Baltimore City/CountyNational Organization for Women, Columbia (MO) AreaNational Organization for Women, Seattle ChapterNational Organization for Women, TexasNational Partnership for Women and FamiliesNational Resource Center on Domestic ViolenceNational Women’s Law CenterNational Women’s Political CaucusNew Moon GirlsNi-Ta-Nee NOW (Centre County PA National Organization for Women)North Jersey Sierra GroupNorthern New Jersey NOWOhio National Organization for WomenOregon Safe Schools and Communities CoalitionPicture Social Justice, Inc.Pinellas County National Organization for WomenRacial Unity Team (RUT)Renew CaliforniaReproactionSaving Democracy Team of the Villages, FLShift Cultures: One StudentShrewsbury, New Jersey, Democratic ClubSociologists for Women in SocietySouth Jersey NOW-Alice Paul chapterSouthwest PA National Organization for WomenSport EquityStop Sexual Assault in SchoolsTacoma NOWThe Hub ProjectThe Global Community of Women in High School SportsThe Goddess Temple of Palm SpringsThe Unity CouncilUS National Committee for UN WomenUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Women’s Studies and Dept. of EnglishUrban Learning Teaching and Research: American Ed Research Assoc: SIG ULTRVirginia NOW, Inc.4
VoteERA.orgWashington State National Organization for WomenWestchester NY National Organization for WomenWild West Women, Inc.Women Enabled InternationalWomen Leading in Education Across ContinentsWomen’s Equal Justice ProjectWomen’s Media Center’sWomen’s Sports FoundationWomen’s Studies Department, Old Dominion UniversityYWCA USAAdditional Well Known Individuals who signed:Lawrence Bloom, former Chicago City Council MemberLetty Cottin Pogrebin, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, writer and activist5
Jan 08, 2021 · Feminist Majority Foundation-Eleanor Smeal, President and Sue Klein, Ed.D, Education Equity Director. Organizations that signed as of 1-8-21: (117 organizations) 1st Amendment-1st Vote, Inc. Activism Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology Alcyone LLC Allies Reaching f
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