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T Is For Title IX: The History, The Myth, The Reality
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted August 15, 2012 at 8:05pm

source Last winter, I wrote a post based on each letter of the alphabet.  The English major inside of me was very excited about this project…and my inner nerd was even more fired up!  As the blog vacation continues, I hope you enjoy this...more

Should EA Sports add women’s soccer players to ‘FIFA’ game?
by Pretty Tough
posted August 15, 2012 at 9:07am

Video games giant EA Sports has received criticism for failing to include women’s players and teams on its popular title “FIFA” in the wake of the United States’ dramatic victory over Japan for the Olympic gold medal. The American...more

High school football stadium costs $60 million
by Sports, Media & Society
posted August 9, 2012 at 5:16pm

While many U.S. cities are defaulting on their debts or are the verge of bankruptcy, Allen High School in Texas is set to open its $60 million football stadium later this month. No, that is not a typo. Sixty million dollars is the correct amount. In ...more

Quinnipiac ruling upheld
by Title IX Blog
posted August 8, 2012 at 8:28pm

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision issued by federal Judge Stefan Underhill in 2010 which stated the Quinnipiac University could not count  competitive cheerleading as a sport for Title IX compliance purposes. The decision is no...more

Rogers Cup Does it Again
by The Rabbit Hole
posted August 6, 2012 at 5:55pm

Photo from elitegirljen.Last year Tennis Canada and the Rogers Cup ran into resistance from their fans for an add that stated "Come for the ladies. Stay for the Legends."  Many demanded that the ads be taken down immediately because it implied that f...more

Oregon father proceeds with lawsuit
by Title IX Blog
posted August 6, 2012 at 8:39am

We noted last month that Randy Anderson, the father of a softball player at Oregon's Seaside High School, was planning on filing a lawsuit because no girls' team was slated to play at the new sports complex, which seems to have been designed around the ne...more

OCR's Enforcement Highlights from the Last Two Years
by Title IX Blog
posted August 3, 2012 at 7:57am

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights released its biennial report on Title IX enforcement for the last two years.  True to the title, the report focuses on enforcement "highlights" -- and there were many: the 2010 Dear Colleague Lett...more

Student Note Addresses Title IX, Transgender Discrimination, and Women's Colleges
by Title IX Blog
posted August 2, 2012 at 7:24pm

Recent Harvard Law graduate Katherine Kraschel's Note in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender argues that women's colleges need not worry that admitting transgender students would compromise their ability to remain single-sex.  She explains: Title ...more

So How Much of An Impact Will Saudi’s Female Olympians Have On Gender Equality? Apparently Not a Lot
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted July 29, 2012 at 4:36pm

By Anna BRESLAW Saudi Arabia's decision to send women to the London Olympics for the first time this year lasted right up to the wire vis a vis ongoing talks with the International Olympic Committee, finally reaching the decision to the affirma...more

Marathon Olympic challenge: More female athletes, but fewer events
by Fair Game News
posted July 28, 2012 at 8:59am

  By Laura Pappano In 1963, a Sports Illustrated story headlined, “Why Can’t We Beat This Girl?” got at one tender aspect of the Cold War conflict: U.S. Olympic medal counts suffered in comparison to the Soviets because Ame...more

Saudi female athletes challenge Muslim norms
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted July 27, 2012 at 5:29pm

By Susan BerkDUBAI: Behind concrete walls and with no men in sight, Saudi women wearing shorts and short-sleeve shirts meet three times a week to play football in an all-female club in Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah.Cheering them on is Jeddah King's U...more

“You Got The Girl”… 40 Years Post Title IX
by Pretty Tough
posted July 27, 2012 at 9:03am

First year as an official “baller” (2nd Grade, 1992) Funny to think my introduction to the sport that would ultimately help define me as a person and set me on my career path came from my “brother from another mother” and my ver...more

Did Greece miss potential teachable moment at Olympics?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 26, 2012 at 8:47am

Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou was booted off her country's Olympic team after making a racist comment on Twitter, according to various media reports. The articles reported that Papachristou said on Twitter: “With so many Africans in Greece...more

Female Olympians still sit at the back of the (Air)bus
by Off The Court
posted July 24, 2012 at 5:47pm

The 2012 London Olympics will be the first time in history that women have been allowed to compete in every sport at the Games. Despite this milestone, all is not equal on a modern female Olympian’s trip to London.If a female athlete overcomes all t...more

London's High Court permits Female Canoeist's lawsuit to proceed
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 21, 2012 at 10:27pm

On Thursday, London's High Court granted permission for British National Sprint Canoe Champion Sam Rippington's lawsuit to proceed.  In addition, "The IOC and the Olympic Delivery Authority have been ordered to be joined as interested parties. The ca...more

LOCOG Deflects Equality Responsibilities
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 20, 2012 at 2:12pm

LOCOG continues to deflect equality responsibilities. See article in"The Guardian."  http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/19/london-2012-japan-australia-sexism.  British National Champion Canoeist Samantha Rippington is not asking for...more

Olympic Numbers #London2012
by One Sport Voice
posted July 20, 2012 at 8:01am

A great deal of discussion exists about the historic fact that Team USA female athletes outnumber their male counterparts in the 2012 London Summer Olympics …269 women and 261 men to be exact. Given 2012 marks the 40th Anniversary of Title IX, thi...more

Female Athletes Don’t Deserve Second-Class Treatment
by Pretty Tough
posted July 20, 2012 at 7:54am

A year ago the Japanese women’s soccer team won the World Cup, beating the United States in the final and giving a boost to the spirits of a nation that had been battered by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear disaster. They became internationa...more

STEM and stigma
by Title IX Blog
posted July 19, 2012 at 6:35pm

Around the 40th anniversary, the White House announced a commitment to increasing the presence of women in STEM fields. This, of course, drew criticism (because the number of women receiving degrees is--overall--higher than men) and fear that the White H...more

Ways of Seeing Women’s Athletic Bodies..con’t
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 19, 2012 at 3:02pm

  My post yesterday about female athletes and posing nude for magazines prompted Laura Taylor, one of my Twitter followers, to dust off a 12-year-old open letter she sent to USA Today columnist Christine Brennan, the now-defunct SI for Women magazin...more

FEMALE CANOEIST TAKES OLYMPIC INEQUALITY TO COURT
by WomenCANIntl
posted July 19, 2012 at 1:00am

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***   FEMALE CANOEIST TAKE OLYMPIC INEQUALITY TO COURT CLAIMS LOCOG IS IN BREACH OF EQUALITY ACT 2010 Samantha Rippington (Left in photo), an elite female canoeist from Reading, will today launch a High Court challenge to th...more

Yes, Virginia, there's still homophobia in women's sports
by After Atalanta
posted July 17, 2012 at 9:31pm

Anti-gay tweets are not that unusual. Anti-gay sentiments among athletes are not especially surprising either. Regarding the latter, though, most public anti-gay statements have been confined to the world of professional men's athletics. (Though more stra...more

Testimony about equitable treatment
by Title IX Blog
posted July 17, 2012 at 9:24pm

There have been quite a lot of personal testimonials about individuals' experiences with Title IX in the months preceding and since the 40th anniversary.I wanted to share a piece of this one by Jennifer Imsande because it was not just about how sports gen...more

Symbolism and female Saudi athletes
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 17, 2012 at 9:16pm

International pressure on Saudi Arabia to send women athletes to the London Olympics has paid off. But some working to improve the plight of females in sports and life in that country are skeptical it has more than symbolic value. Says Saudi sports websit...more

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