Title IX at 40: Looking for Another 'National Crisis'

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'At a White House conference earlier this summer observing the 40th anniversary of Title IX -- the 1972 law prohibiting gender discrimination in federally supported educational programs and activities -- the talk was not so much about college athletics as about the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and math.

Women, according to the prevailing wisdom at the conference, are "underrepresented" in these fields. More needs to be done to boost their participation. Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Leigh Cohon called the current situation "a national crisis."

But a profession should be a matter of personal choice, not something the government dictates. Title IX may have helped open doors for some women. What they do when they get inside should be up to them.
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Title IX and its supporters need to recognize that life is full of statistical imbalances, most of which have nothing to do with institutional bias and everything to do with personal preferences. If women choose to go into education or medicine, rather than physics, why should Washington question them?

Forty years of Title IX artificially leveling the athletic and academic playing fields is enough. We don't need government meddling in career choices under the guise of "gender equality."'