In reality, when Congress passed Title IX in 1972, roughly one in 27 girls, or four percent, participated in sports, according to The New York Times. Just six years later, that number had exploded to 25 percent. Today, roughly one in three girls plays a sport.
Georgia’s move to eliminate coverage for all abortions except those that endanger the life of the mother puts it at the end of the spectrum, said Sharon Levin, director of federal reproductive health policy for the National Women’s Law Center, a reproductive rights group. Other states allow coverage for abortion in the case of rape and incest.
As Know Your IX frequently reminds its readers, most of the site's contributors are not lawyers or experts. Rather than a liability, I find the student survivor-activists' perspectives to be the campaign’s greatest strength.
But Gretchen Borchelt, senior counsel and director of state reproductive health policy at the National Women's Law Center, said she does not know of any case law that would support refusing privileges to a doctor who has performed an abortion when neither the hospital nor its personnel would be required to participate in the procedure.
“The good news is that women are gaining a lot of jobs,” said Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington. “The bad news is that they’re in low-wage occupations.”
The National Women’s Law Center touted Millett’s appellate experience, which includes her many years with the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of the Solicitor General. The center noted that Millett has been repeatedly recognized as one of the best appellate lawyers in the country.
"She was literally the architect of the legal movement that led to protections for women under the Constitution," says Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center and one of many women who call Ginsburg their mentor and role model.
A Missouri college’s policy that fails to excuse students for pregnancy-related absences violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, says a complaint filed by the National Women’s Law Center.
Another benefit is that raising the minimum wage will help close the gender pay gap. The National Women’s Law Center analyzed states with the lowest and highest pay gaps between men and women, and found that seven of the ten states with the smallest wage gaps had higher minimum wages than the federal floor of $7.25.
