{"id":180906,"date":"2023-07-25T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=180906"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:45:35","slug":"patsy-takemoto-mink-us-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/25\/patsy-takemoto-mink-us-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Patsy Takemoto Mink honored with U.S. quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/system-patsy-mink-us-mint.jpg\" alt=\"Design of Patsy Mink quarter and black and white photo of Mink smiling\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/system-patsy-mink-us-mint.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/system-patsy-mink-us-mint-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/system-patsy-mink-us-mint-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The late U.S. Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink, champion of the landmark Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr> legislation, will be the 12th woman honored in the U.S. Mint\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/learn\/coin-and-medal-programs\/american-women-quarters\">American Women Quarters&#8482; Program<\/a>. Mink, a University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa alumna, filled her life with firsts&#8212;the first Japanese-American woman admitted to practice law in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the first Asian American woman, and first woman of color, to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She fought for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare and environmental protection. The quarter honoring her work and legacy will be released in 2024.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/patsy-mink-law-school-chair-will-ensure-social-justice-training\">Patsy Takemoto Mink Chair of Law and Social Justice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/manoa-law-patsy-mink-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"woman and men talking\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-155911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/manoa-law-patsy-mink-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/manoa-law-patsy-mink-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/manoa-law-patsy-mink.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The quarter design depicts Mink holding her landmark Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr> legislation and wearing a lei representing her home state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. In the background, a view of the U.S. Capitol Building prominently features the south wing, home to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she served in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>, and the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/23\/title-ix-50-anniversary\/\">celebrated Mink and the 50th anniversary of Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr><\/a>, and to honor Mink\u2019s profound and successful efforts to bring gender equity to education, Congress renamed Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr> as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. The act states, \u201cNo person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The 50th anniversary of this landmark legislation, championed by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s own Patsy Mink, marks decades of hard-fought progress for girls and women in classrooms, on the court, and in leadership positions across the country,&rdquo; said Jennifer Rose, director for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/titleix\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Office of Institutional Equity<\/a>. &ldquo;Over the last half century, Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr> has had incredible impacts on the ways that society at large not only treats girls in education, but approaches and condemns sexual harassment and sexual violence more broadly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the U.S. Mint honored the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/09\/hundreds-celebrate-edith-kanakaole-uh-hilo\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College instructor Edith <span aria-label=\"Kanakaole\">Kanaka&#699;ole<\/span><\/a> with a quarter celebrating her legendary legacy as a kumu hula, Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The champion of the landmark Title <abbr title=\"9\">IX<\/abbr> legislation, will be the 12th woman honored in the American Women Quarters&#8482; Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,1062,865,9,947,1626],"class_list":["post-180906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-office-of-institutional-equity","tag-title-ix","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180906"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180912,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180906\/revisions\/180912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}