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Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF WOMEN I reprint the the June 23rd, 2007, news article by Melissa Murphy from the Associated Press on Title IX; 35 Years Of Gender Equity because I believe in equal pay, opportunities and equal rights for girls and women. I am a man doctor PhD and attorney so why else would I do this? I am not running for public office. I do so because my interest in the cultivation and development of girls and women is strong enough for me to pay my website administrator to put this article on my website to show my appreciation and respect for people like Billie Jean King and for others like her to provide strong leadership for the empowerment of our young girls and women. Title IX: 35 Years Of Gender Equity by Melissa Murphy, The Associated Press New York; In 1972, America was at war in Vietnam, President Nixon signed Title IX into law and future soccer star Mia Hamm was born. Billie Jean King testified before Congress on behalf of Title IX, and three generations later, the result is more female athletes, doctors and lawyers. Today (June 23, 2007) marks the 35th anniversary of the landmark legislation that bars gender bias in athletics and other educational programs. "I kept thinking about womens teams sports, King said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I grew up with team sports and knew how vital it was that we have opportunity for girls to be in team sports. Title IX is what made the difference for girls to have that opportunity." The law withstood attempts to weaken it in the 1980s and current efforts include thew possibility of an email survey to determine the sporting interests of female college students. That aggravates King, whose life has exemplified the arc of progress for women and for female athletes. Her fight for equal pay and equal rights for girls and women reasonated with a generation during the 1970s and beyond. King testified in the fall of 1971, the year she became the first female athlete to win more than $100,000 in prize money in a single year. She didn't benefit from Title IX, growing up without organized high school sports in Long Beach, Calif., and with no college scholarship to look forward to at Cal State-Los Angeles. "Nobody worried about Billie Jean King or kids like me or girls having a scholarship," said King, who won the first of 20 Wimbledon titles at age 17. "You didn't hear any outrage, you didn't hear any outcry. I'm just using that as an example because that kind of sets the times." King went on to win 39 Grand Slam Titles, the most of any american-born woman. She's been a torch bearer ever since for Title IX. The 37 words of Title IX state: "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 descrimination under any educatrional program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." Like the civil rights movement, it took time for the idea of equity in athletics and other educational endeavors to take hold. The Title IX debate quieted after the Bush administration opted in 2003 not to change the rules after months of review. But a 2005 Title IX clarification by the Department of Education allowed schools to treat a lack of response to an email survey as a lack of interest in sports. NCAA president Myles Brand has voiced his opposition to the surveys. "Boys have never had to prove they've been interested in anything to get opportunity," King said. This week, the National Women's Law Center asked Congress to pressure the Office of Civil Rights to live up to its Title IX enforcement responsibilities. The Center said the OCR initiated only one athletic compliance review among 416 complaints between 2002-6. "While women have made significant progress in education over the last 35 years, the job is not yet finished and the playing field is far from level, "said Marcia D. Greenberger, NWLC co-president. "Women are still too often relegated to the bench when it comes to the facilities, equipment, coaching, publicity and other support services that they receive." Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 RONALD B. KEYS, JD, PhD CLINICAL & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD 2402 N. 28th Avenue Hollywood, Florida, 33020-1814 USA 954-448-1515 primary email: email@rkeysphd.com secondary email: rkeysphd@brainlink.com secondary email: rkeysphd@yahoo.com by pre-arrangements for voice/text chat: Mostly, Dr. Keys works as a Consulting PhD Doctor, usually from a distance, with and through a proper local anchor physician to order blood work. Advanced treatment protocols may develop from the advanced blood chemistries he requests. If you have no local doctor, Dr. Keys finds one through an affiliate physician network. His work is global, oftetimes involving patients from other countries as well as all over the continental USA. There are many tests and treatments to help people; Oftentimes, anchor physicians are not familiar or comfortable with them. Dr. Keys teaches and helps to direct individual patients AND their physicians with laboratory-work for these treatment options. This is measured work and clinical biochemistry. Opinion evidence standards are not employed here since this is a measured and laboratory-based or empirical study of the patient. Numbers are sought from the results of these tests that, usually, "...jump up and grab you..." that dictate what is needed and how much. Patient-advocacy is frequently involved to get advanced and necessary clinical biochemistries ordered and to help interpret them in filed reports..Chat room capabilities in voice or text, besides email, may be employed. This may include conference calls online. In a perfect world, if your physician knew everything, people like Dr. Keys would not exist. Physicians themselves are caught frequently in the traps of their own standards of care that may be very limited in many cases. Methods used by Dr. Keys are rational, scientific and disciplined. Designed by Fencl Web Design.Com DISCLAIMER: Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD is not a physican. He acts here, when hired, only as a consulting PhD doctor. 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