Dale Kildee: “Whatever the case may be, I do not read it that way and the attorneys do not read it that way, but we will nevertheless…”

The Girls Act affords an opportunity to greatly reduce the incidence of sexual harassment by gathering data on these often hidden offenses and providing programs to prevent sexual harassment and abuse.

Education is the means for all girls, including pregnant and parenting teens, to achieve economic self-sufficiency.

The Girls Act responds to findings in the 1998 AAUW Educational Foundation Report, Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children, which identified a number of areas where the educational needs of girls are still unmet.

We need to dismantle the virtual ceiling now, before it becomes a real-life barrier to girls' futures.