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  Title IX Has A Birthday!

  Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:08 AM | By Dayo Olopade

  Yesterday, the Obama administration held a roundtable at the White House campus celebrating the 37th aniversary of Title IX. Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, and Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president, hosted "an all-star line-up of women athletes and scientists," per the White House release. That included Billie Jean King and Dominique Dawes (rapidly becoming an administration favorite), and a slew of representatives from women's groups like the Feminist Majority, NOW, the Women's Sports Foundation, and the National Women's Law Center... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

  Filed under: Title IX, white House council on women and girls, Tags: female athletes

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