At 1:30 pm, April 20th, Vice President Biden will make an announcement about Title IX at the Charles E. Smith Center at George Washington University . The Vice President will be joined at this event by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Valerie Jarrett, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls and Senior Advisor to the President. Other speakers include Secretary of Education Arne Duncan , and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett , Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls. In January of last year, President Obama signed his first bill into law approving the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act , a law named for Ms. Ledbetter an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.
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