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By Jordan Ligons ·Updated June 21, 2022
These 37 words changed everything for women and girls 50 summers ago: “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 educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
On June 23, 1972, this one sentence snuck into a larger section of the
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