Educational Gender Equity

Sex education: we should teach young people about more than the mechanics

25 May 2012

Young people need comprehensive sexuality education, which will help them make more informed decisions Sex education polarises opinion, sets legislators against parents and parents against schools and regularly inflames media opinion. Somewhere in the middle sit young people: ill-served, receiving confused messages and gaining their information from famously unreliable sources, such as peers or ...

Chicago Sky and Girl Scouts Honor Title IX Anniversary

24 May 2012

(Chicago, May 24, 2012) - This year marks the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts of the USA and the 40th anniversary of Title IX. To honor these milestones, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana is once again partnering with the WNBA Chicago Sky basketball team to give girls hands-on opportunities to learn how a professional basketball team operates.

Title IX still going strong at 40

18 May 2012

More than any other federal legislation, Title IX dramatically changed the course of education for female students involved in athletics in the United States. Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex,...