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Testimony of Jocelyn C. Frye, General Counsel, National Partnership for Women & Families, before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

Oversight Hearing on the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. — September 27, 2007 — Thank you for the invitation to testify this morning. My name is Jocelyn Frye and I am the General Counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Since our founding in 1971, the National Partnership has been at the forefront of efforts to ensure equal employment opportunity for women. As a critical part of that work, we have monitored federal agency enforcement of employment discrimination laws, including the work of the Department of Justice (DOJ). We have focused special attention on the enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the landmark antidiscrimination law that prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, sex, ethnicity, and religion. Title VII has been instrumental in expanding women’s employment opportunities, and remedying discriminatory workplace practices used to deny or limit women’s work options. The National Partnership has spent years — before federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and the public — working to secure Title VII’s critical protections for all to ensure that our workplaces operate free of discrimination. I also have the privilege of co-chairing the Employment Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. In that capacity, I work with many leading national advocacy and legal organizations to ensure vigorous enforcement of employment discrimination laws, and advance equal employment opportunity principles in workplaces across the country. More »

The National Partnership for Women & Families is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group dedicated to promoting fairness in the workplace, access to quality health care and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.

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