Pay Act, prohibiting unequal pay between the sexes for equal work. Then, in 1969 President Richard M. Nixon issued an Executive Order 11478 that barred the federal government from using sex as a qualification for hiring. Schulz argues that the effect of this legislation was reflected in federal policing by 1971 when both the Executive Protective Service and the Secret Service hired female agents. She states that when, in July 1972, the FBI assigned two women to its academy for training as special agents, the handwriting was on the wall that municipal police departments would also have to assign women to training and tasks ide
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