Title IX: The Journey Continues

The L2T team wants to share with you the stories of women and men who strive to achieve the intended goal of Title IX – creating opportunity so that individuals, regardless of gender, can reach their full potential. Many have become leaders in their communities, organizations, and, in some cases, countries. These are their leaders.

Wilma Vaught

Wilma Vaught

Wilma Vaught, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.), one of the most highly decorated military women in United States history, broke through many of the bureaucratic and gender barriers that faced women in the armed forces during her nearly twenty-nine year military career.

Bella Abzug

Bella Abzug

Bella Abzug always championed women's rights, human rights, equality, peace and social justice.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President William Clinton in 1993, she is the second woman to sit on the bench of the United States Supreme Court in its 212 year history.

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist and founder of the Children's Defense Fund, has dedicated her life to those who cannot always lift themselves up.

Sheila Widnall

Sheila Widnall

Sheila E. Widnall, a woman of outstanding scientific achievement, dedicated citizen, and skilled administrator, was Secretary of the United States Air Force from 1993-1997, the first woman to head a branch of the U.S. Military.