CNN’s Jill Doughtery reports on why the White House is revising Title IX women’s sports policy: “Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the Obama administration is changing the policy that governs gender equality in sports by eliminating what s…
Women can perform just as well in math and science as men. However, we often hear the opposite sentiment . . . so I warmly welcomed the recent news of Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider wining the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine.
“Sylvia B. Pressler, whose 1973 ruling as a hearings officer with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights opened the door for girls to play Little League baseball, and who later rose to be the presiding administrative judge of the state’s Appellate Division, died Monday at a family cottage in Sparta, N.J.,” writes Bruce Weber in The New York Times.
“This is a tale of two ski jumpers, one male, one female. Anders Johnson, 20, ranked 100th in the world, made the US Olympic team for the second time and headed for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. His sister Alissa, 22, who is ranked 11th in the world, did not go to the Olympics. In fact, no woman will have the chance to jump for Olympic gold. That’s because ski jumping, one of the original winter Olympic events, still holds a male-only competition, the only Olympic sport to do so,” writes Michele Morris on Huffington Post.
Young tennis player Melanie Oudin’s victories at the U.S. Open are a positive example for young girls and boys.