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Title IX: Looking Back on 40 years
Team Judge James and Banu Ramachandran, Barran Liebman LLP
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TITLE IX 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (emphasis added)
No Person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (emphasis added)
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Title IX in Athletics Heather Sue Mercer v. Duke University,
190 F.3d 643 (4th Cir. 1999)
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Title IX in Academics
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Before and After Title IX
Early 1970’s 2000’s Law Degrees 7% 47% Medical Degrees 9% 43% Doctoral Degrees 13.3% 50% High School Graduates/GEDs 59% 87% College Degrees 8% 28% Source: Equal Access to Education: Forty Years of Title IX, U.S. Dept. of Justice, June 23, 2012;
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Percent of Adults Age 25-34 with a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher
Source: Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, White House Council on Women and Girls
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Law Degrees in Oregon Lewis & Clark Law School Before Title IX: 1970
Willamette University: 4.2% women University of Oregon: 5.3% women Lewis & Clark: 11% women (1971) Willamette College of Law University of Oregon Law School Source: US News, Rankings and Reviews, J.D. Candidates Graduating in
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