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Cleveland State Law Review

2007

Women's equality

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Personal Insights And Experiences Regarding The Passage Of Title Ix , Birch Bayh Jan 2007

Personal Insights And Experiences Regarding The Passage Of Title Ix , Birch Bayh

Cleveland State Law Review

My purpose here today is to look at some of the legislative history of Title IX, and perhaps some of the details that never made it into the Congressional Record, and also to include my personal involvement in it. I do that with some fear and trepidation because it sounds like one is puffing himself up.It is fair to ask, “How can a kid who grew up on a corn and soybean farm, raising pigs and hogs and cattle and calves, chickens, how in the world could he ever get to be a United States Senator, let alone become involved …


Worth Fighting For: Thirty-Five Years Of Title Ix Advocacy In The Courts, Congress And The Federal Agencies, Marcia D. Greenberger, Neena K. Chaudhry Jan 2007

Worth Fighting For: Thirty-Five Years Of Title Ix Advocacy In The Courts, Congress And The Federal Agencies, Marcia D. Greenberger, Neena K. Chaudhry

Cleveland State Law Review

This article focuses on Title IX and women's continuing struggle to secure equal opportunity on the playing fields. But athletics is not unique. Indeed, the lessons of Title IX in athletics, its importance to women and girls, and how the law has been shaped over the years by advocacy in each branch of government, apply to all the fields of endeavor that still remain only partially available to the young women of this nation. Women and girls continue to lag behind in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, remain clustered in “traditionally female” programs such as cosmetology that …