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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Diane Madsen’s third grader asked why there were no cheerleaders or mascot at their girls’ high school’s basketball game. Diane said that’s how it was and her daughter said, “then I’d better be good enough to play on the boys' team." That made Diane take another look around the gym to see what else was different. There was no announcer, no water on the bench, no concession stand and no girls’ locker room either. That night began a journey for gender equity in athletics that affected the entire state of Michigan.Read more Meet more faces of Title IX
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