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Urge Your PA Senator To Support Equitable Athletic Opportunity in Pennsylvania High Schools

Senator Mary Jo White (R-21) introduced SB890, “The Pennsylvania Equity in Interscholastic Athletics Disclosure Act,” in the Pennsylvania Senate on May 27th.   This legislation will give schools, parents, and students a significant tool to help them achieve athletic equity for Pennsylvania’s female secondary school athletes. Learn what you can do to help pass SB890.

Downoad a PDF version of our Guide: Are Schools Giving Female Athletes a Sporting Chance? A Guide to Gender Equity in Athletics in Pennsylvania Schools.

Honoring the Memory of Dr. Tiller

On Sunday May 31st, one of the nation’s most courageous and dedicated abortion providers was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kansas.  Dr. George Tiller cared for women from all over the United States who had nowhere else to turn, women whose pregnancies had gone tragically wrong after they had passed the gestational limit of nearly all other abortion providers.  Because of his unique importance to the nation’s reproductive health care system, Dr. Tiller was targeted by opponents of legal abortion, and he was always in danger. 

In 1993, he was shot in both arms but refused to abandon the women who were relying on him and went on to perform abortions on his schedule that day.  More recently, he endured a lengthy criminal investigation into his practice that had been initiated by opponents of legal abortion and from which he was fully exonerated.  The Women’s Law Project honors the memory of this extraordinary physician and friend to women by redoubling our efforts to protect Pennsylvania abortion providers and their patients, escorts, counselors, and clinic staff from anti-abortion terrorist tactics.  Our thoughts go out to Dr. Tiller's family, coworkers, and friends, and to the brave and devoted community of providers, here in Pennsylvania and across the country, who survive him. 

Help Pennsylvania Make Families a Priority!

One in ten employees is a member of the “sandwich generation,” with caregiving responsibilities for both children and elderly parents.  Women now make up almost half of the U.S. labor force and 81% of women in the United States have children by the time they reach 44.  As a consequence, employees are increasingly subjected to adverse employment actions – rejection for employment, demotion, harassment, and termination – by employers based on caregiving.

HR 280 was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to protect women and families from discrimination in employment based on familial status. 

Employers should support employees and their families and not treat anyone differently because of caregiving responsibilities.

You can help change the law to support families by:

• Calling or writing your representative to ask him or her to support HB 280.
• Helping the Women’s Law Project advocate for this legislation by sharing your experiences with us. 

Support Center for Child Advocates Honors Carol Tracy with 2009 Distinguished Advocate Award The following is the presentation by Frank P. Cervone, Executive Director, Support Center for Child Advocates on April 22, 2009: For more than two decades, Carol has been a force in civil rights law, leading major legal victories with national impact in reproductive rights, athletics and public welfare.  At the Women’s Law Project, she leads an extraordinary team of dedicated professionals.  A passionate, tireless defender of the most disenfranchised among us, Carol has been equally active on the local advocacy scene, championing behavioral health services for pregnant and post-partum mothers and chairing the citywide Domestic Violence Task Force.  And always, you will find her asking, “What about the kids?”  Her bold efforts to uncover investigative breakdowns in the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit (SVU) led to reforms in child abuse and domestic violence work and the creation of a new SVU headquarters.  Carol was appointed by Mayor Street in 2006 to study the leadership crisis at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) and served as an effective member of the DHS Community Oversight Board.  For extraordinary dedication to the rights and needs of others, we honor a leader of the public interest bar and my good friend, Carol Tracy as a Distinguished Advocate.

Picture by George Feder, Top Guns Photography   (L-R) Frank Cervone, Executive Director, Support Center for Child Advocates, Lynne Abraham, District Attorney, City of Philadelphia, Carol Tracy, Executive Director, WLP, Stella Tsai, Esq., Archer and Greiner, President, Board of Trustees of WLP, Nancy Ezold, Esq., of Nancy O'Mara Ezold, PC, Secretary, Board of Trustees of WLP, and Catherine Barbieri, Esq., Fox Rothschild, Vice President Board of Trustees of WLP.

WLP Files Title IX Complaint Against New Hope-Solebury School District

After over a year of inaction by the New Hope-Solebury School District to rectify it’s acknowledged inequities in athletics, the Women’s Law Project filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights asserting Title IX violations by the School District.  Under Title IX, school districts that receive federal funding are prohibited from engaging in sex discrimination.  The WLP complaint alleges violations in both the number of athletic opportunities offered and the relative treatment of the teams.

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