One of former Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink‘s best known legacies was her authorship of Title IX, which is best known for how it enabled women’s participation in college and high school athletics. 

What most know as Title IX today was signed into law as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in June 1972. As the law’s 40th anniversary nears, the U.S. Department of Education is taking stock of its effect on the country. 

The department’s assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights, Russlynn Ali, will offer remarks about the issue at an annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington on Thursday. 

Ali is scheduled to participate in a session called “Taking Stock at Title IX’s 40th Anniversary: Athletics, Single-Sex Education and Bullying/Harassment.”

Mink died at age 74 in 2002.