People had different opinions on social and political groups around the time of post - Civil War Reconstruction. “In 1972 the signing into law of Title IX of the Federal Education Amendments made discrimination based on sex illegal in education programs and activities receiving federal funding.” This quote summarized basically says no discrimination based on sex, educational institutions can't exclude people or treat them unfairly because of their sex. In other words, a federal law also known as “Title IX”, was come about to prevent sex-based discrimination in any school that receives money from the federal government. Law was impacted through the passage of landmark legislation. For example, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. The Equal Pay Act made it illegal for men and women to be paid different wages for working in the same industry.