published the WEAL Washington Report, Better Late than Never: Financial Aid for Older Women, and newsletters on issues of concern to women, including executive and legislative actions and court decisions. WEAL established a tax-exempt fund which supported lawsuits and monitored implementation and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, dealing with academic discrimination in pay and tenure. They filed complaints against academic institutions at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. They also instituted a lawsuit against The Pittsburgh Press for segregating employment advertisements by sex. NOW joined the effort, which escalated to the Supreme Court, and ultimately eliminated the practice of sex-segregated advertising. Later that year, an internal disagreement over whether to pursue action in a pregnancy-discrimination case, which would become Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, caused Jane Pinker to resign from the board. She and WEAL members who followed her formed the Women's Law Fund and successfully litigated LaFleur. Those who remained with WEAL, filed a sex-discrimination case in 1973, Frontiero v. Richardson to secure military benefits for the spouse of a female officer. In 1977, they won a court order in Adams v. Califano, requiring HEW and the Department of Labor to enforce federal law and hire adequate staff to clear the pending cases of sex-discrimination. WEAL also sought to remove gender as a factor in insurance ratings and lobbied for passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. Throughout the 1980s, WEAL worked on cases regarding women and the military, pressing for changes in the classification of jobs for which women were ineligible and the way military spouses were treated. In 1987, they won a case which barred the Department of Defense from interfering in the careers of military spouses. Up to that point, servicemembers' spouses could be pressured to give up civilian careers because it was seen to infringe upon the amount of time they devoted to volunteer activities in the military community, and this was used to limit promotion opportunities of servicemembers. WEAL dissolved in 1989. National presidents: Elizabeth Boyer (1968-1969) Nancy Dowding (1969-1970) Lizabeth Moody (1970) Sally Mann (1971-1972) Arvonne Fraser (1972-1974) Doris Kluge Seward (1975-1976) Eileen Thornton (1976-1978) Cristine Candela (1978-1980) Carol Burroughs Grossman (1980-1982) Mary Wheat Gray (1982-1988) Doris Etelson (1989-1990) References Sources External links Records, 1967-1990. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Women's Equity Action League of Massachusetts. Records, 1971-1992. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Women's