advancement in corporate America where attaining the highest-level managerial or executive positions top U.S. corporations reaches a limit, and the fact that East Asians must acquire more education, work experience and work more hours than their white counterparts to earn the same amount of money.

The "model minority" image is also seen as being damaging to East Asian American students because their assumed success makes it easy for educators to overlook some East Asian American students who are underachieving, struggle academically, and assimilate more slowly in the American school system. Some American educators hold East Asian American students to a higher academic standard and ignores other students of East Asian origin  with learning disabilities from being given attention that they need. This may deprive those students with connotationsprograms for male and female athletes are conducted on a national basis.” Women players commit to a fulltime schedule of training and competition, but are paid only $6,000 every four years, and are often expected to purchase their own equipment. In addition, USA Hockey provides no national developmental program for women, while spending millions to support young male athletes.

The U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team has won gold medals at the IIHF World Championships the past three years, in addition to medaling in every Olympics since Women’s Hockey was first added as an Olympic Sport in 1998.
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As Senators committed to gender equity in all realms of American life, we write to express our serious concern with allegations raised by members of the U.S.