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Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; Japanese: 竹本 マツ, December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party , initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until ...
Patsy Mink was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress. Read more at womenshistory.org.
26 de ago. de 2022 · “What you endure is who you are,” Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink once declared. “I can’t change the past. But I can certainly help somebody else in the future, so they don’t have to go through what I did.” Before Title IX, girls were forced to study home economics in middle and high schools.
13 de may. de 2024 · Patsy Takemoto Mink, American politician, the first Asian American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, where she served from 1965 to 1977 and from 1990 to 2002. She was a coauthor of Title IX (1972), which mandated equal funding for women’s academic and athletic programs in institutions receiving federal money.
1 de jun. de 2022 · Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink, a four-term Member of Congress from Hawaii in 1972, played a pivotal role in developing and defending Title IX.
8 de mar. de 2024 · Her best-known achievement was Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, of which she was the principal author. Title IX prohibited sex discrimination in academics and athletics at institutions receiving federal aid. The law, together with the larger women’s movement, changed the country.
Patsy Mink’s involvement in the passage of Title IX and the 1974 Women’s Educational Equity Act (WEEA) were among her most noteworthy successes while serving in Congress and arguably her most impactful legislative efforts in fighting gender-based discrimination.
