Today marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law that bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal money. Today, women can be found in every profession and sport. Soccer teams and basketball courts and kickball fields are full of little girls all over the country and women's professional sports leagues grow daily. More women than men graduate from college, even, something that would have been unimaginable to the authors of Title IX.
It is with tears of gratitude that this forty-year-old mother thanks the forty-year-old Title IX for the fact that her brilliant daughters will never be held back from getting the educations they deserve because they are girls and that they can swim and play soccer and do all the things the boys can do at school.
Thank you. So much.
1 comment:
I didn't realize that Title IX was 40 years old. Huzzah.
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