[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 18, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                TITLE IX

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 30th 
anniversary of title IX of the education amendments of 1972. In passing 
title IX, Congress intended to give girls and women opportunities equal 
to those offered to boys and men in education programs that receive 
Federal taxpayer dollars.
  Today we enjoy a greater amount of freedom from our counterparts from 
30 years ago. Yet with all the advances that have been made toward 
gender equity, many barriers still remain. For example, according to a 
report of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, just 
21 percent of all full professors at colleges and universities are 
women. For every new dollar going into athletics at the Division I and 
Division II levels, male sports receive 65 cents of the dollar while 
girls or women sports receive only 35 cents. In addition, sex 
segregation persists in career education, with more than 90 percent of 
girls clustered in training programs for the traditionally female 
fields of health, teaching, graphic arts, and office technology.
  We must continue to support title IX.

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