President Obama signed his first bill into law on January 29, 2009 approving the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for Ms. Ledbetter, fourth from left, an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.
Landmark rape case at Arizona State settled with plaintiff awarded $850,000 and the Ariizona University system to establish a women's safety czar for all three major campusus.
National Girls & Women in Sports Day began in 1987 as a day to remember Olympic Volleyball player Flo Hyman for her athletic achievements and her work to assure equality for women's sports. Events are conducted around the country and on Capitol Hill throughout the month to celebrate the athletic achievements of girls and women and to promote the continued expansion of opportunities for girls to play sports and live physically active lives.
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The McCormick Family thought long and hard about whether to join a Title IX Suit that involved their daughter and many others to correct in inequity of playing high school soccer out of season. The question wasn’t whether the McComick’s believed in Title IX and gender equity, it was whether to put their family in the middle of a law suit - or teach principals, morals and ethics, not to mention right or wrong even though it might be a tough fight.Read more Meet more faces of Title IX
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