{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-01T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/01\/gender-application-single-sex-publ"},"modified":"2008-03-01T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:25:14","slug":"gender-application-single-sex-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/01\/gender-application-single-sex-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Application &#8211; Single Sex Public Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/02\/magazine\/02sex3-t.html?pagewanted=7&amp;ei=5087&amp;em&amp;en=22752e27b35fe7ab&amp;ex=1204520400\"><p>As the Supreme Court would rule in June 1996, just three months before T.Y.W.L.S. opened, the legality of single-sex schools depends on context. In United States v. Virginia, a case regarding females\u2019 exclusion from the all-male Virginia Military Institute, the justices found that the male bastion was in fact violating the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and that the state of Virginia\u2019s proposal to open an all-girls school wasn\u2019t a sufficient remedy because V.M.I. gave its students not just a good education but powerful connections within Virginia\u2019s military and political elite. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who earlier in her career had been a founder of the A.C.L.U. Women\u2019s Rights Project (a group that has been active in suing single-sex public schools), wrote the majority opinion, composing what some people consider a condensation of feminist thinking up to 1996. Ginsburg\u2019s opinion states that in some contexts, single-sex schools might be legal, as long as those schools worked to \u201cdissipate, rather than perpetuate, traditional gender classifications.\u201d \u201cThe two sexes are not fungible,\u201d Ginsburg wrote, quoting a 1946 decision; the physical differences between the sexes are \u201cenduring\u201d and \u201ccause for celebration.\u201d Yet, Ginsburg warned, those differences cannot be used to place \u201cartificial constraints on individuals\u2019 opportunity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/02\/magazine\/02sex3-t.html?pagewanted=7&amp;ei=5087&amp;em&amp;en=22752e27b35fe7ab&amp;ex=1204520400\">Single-Sex Public Education &#8211; Children and Youth &#8211; Schools &#8211; Gender &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/blogged-with-flock\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Supreme Court would rule in June 1996, just three months before T.Y.W.L.S. opened, the legality of single-sex schools depends on context. In United States v. Virginia, a case regarding females\u2019 exclusion from the all-male Virginia Military Institute, the justices found that the male bastion was in fact violating the equal-protection clause of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}