From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arlene Horowitz
Arlene Horowitz
Arlene Horowitz (born 1946) is an American women’s ac- Congress, she worked nights and weekends to draft what
tivist and the author the Women’s Educational Equity Act.[1] was to become the Women’s Educational Equity Act.
She authored the Women’s Educational Equity Act
Biography (WEEA) enacted as part of P.L. 93-380. She was cited in the
July 30, 1974 Congressional Record by Congresswoman Pat-
Horowitz was born to Jewish immigrant, working-class sy T. Mink for "diligent and able work." and listed on the
parents in The Bronx, New York. She was orphaned in National Women’s History Project Path of the Women’s
1962 at the age of 15. Believing that the only hope she Rights Movement for 1974. First documented in National
might have for a decent life was education, thanks to the Politics and Sex Discrimination in Education by Andrew
lucky combination of a free higher education offered to Fishel and Janice Pottker in 1977, the WEEA has been
academically-qualified New York City residents and her funded by Congress to the present-day.
father’s Social Security payments, she was able to earn It is not clear if Arlene Horowitz is still alive.
a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hunter Col-
lege in 1967. [She went on to earn a master’s degree from
Rutgers University in 1993.]
References
In 1968 she moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in [1] Davis, Flora (1999). Moving the mountain: the women’s
a series of low-level jobs on Capitol Hill, including staff movement in America since 1960. University of Illinois
assistant to an education subcommittee in the House of Press. pp. 213–. ISBN 9780252067822.
Representatives. http://books.google.com/
Frustrated by lack of job advancement and the overt books?id=ioM-8naFn60C&pg=PA213. Retrieved 22
acceptance of discrimination against women, she helped June 2011.
organize other women on Capitol Hill and helped to Persondata
launch the first survey comparing employment practices
Name Horowitz, Arlene
and salary differentials between male and female em-
ployees. Asked to become an original member of the Leg- Alternative names
islative Core of the then-fledgling National Women’s Po- Short description
litical Caucus, she gave a workshop on legislative process Date of birth 1946
at the NWPC’s initial organizing conference in Wichita,
Place of birth
Kansas in 1973.
In Backlash Susan Faludi explains, "[t]he woman who Date of death
first proposed WEEA wasn’t even one of those ’radical Place of death
feminists’ from NOW; Arlene Horowitz was a clerical
worker in a congressional office, a working woman who
understood from personal experience —trying to live off
her skimpy paycheck— that unequal schooling could
have painful and long-term consequences."
Horowitz was threatened by dismissal for her ac-
tivism in the women’s movement. Using a $70 portable
typewriter and her legislative knowledge gained in
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