[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   EQUAL TREATMENT FOR MEN AND WOMEN

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, Monday the Supreme Court let stand a title 
IX ruling requiring Brown University to give equal treatment to men and 
women in sports. This was not an affirmative action case. It was an 
old-fashioned deliberate discrimination case, even though affirmative 
action would have been justified given the exclusion of women from 
sports for decades. It did not come a moment too soon. This is the 25th 
anniversary of title XI. It did not come a moment too soon because 
everybody jumped and cheered for our women athletes at the Atlanta 
Olympics. It is now time for Congress to undo the damage it did last 
year when it erased all State compliance funds for title IX, for the 
injury was not to female athletes alone but to all school programs for 
girls, including our attempts to increase girls in math and science. 
This is not about men versus women. It is not a zero sum game. Equal 
treatment for men and women is win-win, Mr. Speaker.

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