The United States Civil Rights Commission and the Department of Education have redefined discrimination to include any educational outcome that favors boys. For example, when more boys than girls enroll in honors physics classes or when boys score higher than girls on the math SAT, the circumstances count as evidence of discrimination against girls and call for government intervention.

In practice, equity policies are not applied equally to both sexes. Any advantage boys may enjoy constitutes evidence of discrimination and is aggressively combated; any advantage girls may enjoy is celebrated as a victory over past discrimination. If the government continues in its current direction, we will soon be seeing gender quotas for physics classes and Title IX discrimination lawsuits against engineering schools.

These destructive polices undermine the choices of all Americans, displace excellence as a national ideal, and overwhelm the courts with frivolous and pernicious lawsuits.

At this briefing, three experts will discuss the gender discrimination views of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.