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Are Title IX online interest surveys valid?(NEWSWATCH)
Two years ago in March the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights advised that schools could use an online survey to prove that they were satisfying women students' interests in athletics. It was one of three ways to comply with Title IX, the law requiring gender equity in educational programs.
Recently experts on both sides of the question spoke at a briefing before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Jocelyn Samuels, VP for education and employment at the National Women's Law Center, said the survey would unfairly shift the burden of proof to women students, who would then have to prove their interest. "We never asked women if they were interested in voting before they were given the right to do so," she said of suffrage laws.
Judith Sweet, a consultant and former senior VP at the NCAA, called the survey "contrived to show that females are not interested ...
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