Sex discrimination in school sports? Worcester among districts in complaint

The National Women's Law Center recently filed a complaint against Worcester public schools and 11 other districts nationwide claiming that they offer fewer sports opportunities to high school girls than boys and that there is a large gap in the percentage of female athletes in the district and the percentage of female students as a whole. The complaint also argued that Worcester does not offer all the sports it could at all of its school. As playing a high school sport can lead to higher self-esteem, higher graduation rates, higher grades, higher test scores and lower rates of drug use and teenage pregnancy, the complaint is designed to raise awareness of the problem and of the center's new campaign, “Rally for Girls' Sports: She'll Win More Than a Game.”