Baseball for boys, softball for girls?
13-year old Mo’ne Davis, the first girl to win a Little League World Series game, was named the 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Click the picture for an article about her from the New York Times, 20 August 2014.
Articles
Busy Boys and Little Ladies. How
fake brain science has supported gender segregation in schools. By Lise Eliot
(Slate, 4.12.2014)
End Gender Segregation in Schools. By Silke Tober and
Thomas Kunze (FR 21.08.2014)
Mandatory single-sex instruction: A violation of civil rights!
By Thomas Kunze and Silke Tober (FR 18.06.2013)
Failing Our Kids: Despite pseudoscience to the contrary, sex segregation in public schools creates problems—not solutions. By Susan McGee Bailey (Ms. Magazine Fall 2013)
Legal Documents
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. 1681
“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 discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Article 3 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
(2) Men and women shall have equal rights. The state shall promote the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and take steps to eliminate disadvantages that now exist.
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News
On 1 December 2014, U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights published a clarification of requirements for offering single-sex classes in K-12 schools. It is written in Q&A form and thus easily accessible. The clarification in short:
- single-sex classes have to be completely voluntary
- the school must identify an important objective for offering a single-sex class and show that the single-sex nature of the class is substantially related to meeting the identified objective.
- the school must offer a substantially equal coeducational alternative.
- the school “must not assign teachers to single-sex classes on the basis that boys should be taught by men and girls should be taught by women or vice versa.”
- periodic evaluations (at least every 2 years) are demanded by Title IX “to ensure that each single-sex class it offers is based upon genuine justifications, does not rely on overly broad generalizations about either sex, and continues to be substantially related to the achievement of the important objective”.
How does a girl run? Think again!
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Title IX
The ACLU has been fighting sex segregation and stereotyping for many decades and has won many court cases.
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