Higher Education
"Title IX has helped create a climate where women and men of similar talent who want to be scientists or engineers have equal opportunity to do so."
- "Why So Few", AAUW, 2010
- "Why So Few", AAUW, 2010
Title IX has provided opportunities in non-traditional careers for women by increasing participation in professional fields. This is beneficial to all Americans in the current global economy. Challenges still remain as women with equal educational credentials are being paid less than men for the same work.
 Higher percentage of employed women have college degrees today.
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 Since 1966, number of women earning bachelor's degrees has increased.
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Opposition
"... women earn more degrees - practically across the board. What about male proportionality in the humanities, social sciences, and biology? The physical sciences are the exception, not the rule."
- The Science of Women and Science, Edited by Christina Hoff Sommers
- The Science of Women and Science, Edited by Christina Hoff Sommers
 "Women are overtaking men as America's breadwinners"
- Liza Mundy, TIME Magazine, March 26th, 2012 |
 "...in 2010, women working full time in the United States still earned just 77 percent, on average, of what men earn, a gap of 23 percent. The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation."
Source: Simple Truths about the Pay Gap, AAUW Report,2011 |
"Equal Pay for Equal Work"
 "On January 29, 2009, President Obama signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act to ensure that all Americans receive equal pay for equal work." Source: Civil Rights, The White House,2009. |
"It ended most but not all of the overt policies and practices, such as tiny quotas for women in medical, law and other professional schools, and stopped requiring higher grades and test scores for women and girls for admissions to colleges..."
- Bernice Sandler, Interview, Apr 8th,2012
- Bernice Sandler, Interview, Apr 8th,2012
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