Wayne State University Board of Governors member Jacquelin Washington wrote an opinion piece about the issue of sex-segregated schools. She wrote that Michigan NOW is opposed to all efforts to establish public sex-segregated schools, classes or programs in Michigan because it inevitably leads to sex discrimination based on gender. "Sex-based separatism institutionalizes sex-based disadvantage - that is why those who oppose affirmative action in every other context praise women's schools as models of affirmative action. And that is why it is destructive to the concept of affirmative action to misapply it to support sex segregation in the schools," Washington wrote.