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Brandi Chastain witnesses backlash
by Title IX Blog
posted May 16, 2012 at 2:42am

Erin has been doing a great job noting all the 40th anniversary coverage that has been going on nationally. They haven't all been happy, happy, rah-rah events, however. Former USWNT player, Brandi Chastain, was participating in one such event last week. ...more

Boys Excluded from Field Hockey Teams
by Title IX Blog
posted May 14, 2012 at 3:48pm

Yesterday we posted about a girl playing on a boys team, so today we'll discuss a couple of stories about cross-over participation of the other variety.  Keeling Pilaro was recently excluded from the Southampton (NY) High School girls' field hockey ...more

Why I find hope in the story of Paige Sultzbach and the forfeited baseball championship
by Caitlin Constantine
posted May 14, 2012 at 3:36pm

In 1972, an 11-year-old girl named Maria wanted to play Little League baseball in New Jersey.  She tried out for the team and was so good they made her pitcher.  However, the organization's rules forbade girls from playing, and so she was ...more

Private School Forfeits Championship to Avoid Playing Against a Girl
by Title IX Blog
posted May 13, 2012 at 8:18pm

This week in Arizona, a fundamentalist Catholic high school called "Our Lady of Sorrows" (indeed!) forfeited the high school championship game rather than face Mesa Preparatory Academy and its female second-baseman, Paige Sultzbach.  According to its...more

More Good 40th Anniversary Press, Events
by Title IX Blog
posted May 10, 2012 at 7:45pm

I'm posting this from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where boxer Laila Ali kicked off the SHARP Title IX at 40 conference at the University of Michigan, with a keynote speech about the importance of athletic opportunities for women and girls.  For coverage of ...more

Laila Ali Opens Title IX Conference
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 10, 2012 at 7:30pm

The Title IX at 40 Conference at the University of Michigan began tonight with Laila Ali's keynote address. Ali, the President of the Women's Sports Foundation, talked about role of sports in her life emphasizing the many positive benefits of participat...more

Can golf courses be sexist?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted May 8, 2012 at 12:44am

Photo from Cylex Signs.Dr. Heather Hundley seems to think so. Well not the golf courses themselves, but the people who create them.  I came across Dr. Hundley's article, Keeping the Score: The hegemonic everyday practices in golf, a little while ago ...more

Herb Dempsey Profiled in Sports Illustrated Article about Title IX Fathers
by Title IX Blog
posted May 8, 2012 at 12:39am

Just a brief post to supplement my earlier post summarizing some of the Title IX 40th Anniversary coverage that has been in the news lately.   This article, also from the recent Sports Illustrated issue that is devoted to Title IX, describes the...more

Sexual Harassment Roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted May 7, 2012 at 5:11pm

Here are summaries of some recent Title IX sexual harassment cases making their way through the courts: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision dismissing a case against a school district deriving from a female teacher's sexual harassment an...more

Gender Differences in Coaching
by One Sport Voice
posted May 7, 2012 at 12:25am

Good coaching is good coaching, regardless of athlete gender. Male and female athletes are much more similar than they are different. There is just as much variability within females and within males, than between males and females. Despite the popular ...more

Title IX Coverage Ramps Up in Anniversary Year
by Title IX Blog
posted May 5, 2012 at 12:52pm

It's hard to keep up with all the Title IX news this spring.  Title IX's 40th anniversary is in June, and the media is ramping up its coverage of our favorite statute.  So far, most of what I've seen has a sports/athletics angle, much of it cele...more

Sports Illustrated's Title IX Anniversary Issue Released; 12 Women's Basketball Players On SI.com's Top 40 List
by Swish Appeal
posted May 3, 2012 at 7:08pm

For its May 7 issue, Sports Illustrated is honoring the 40th anniversary of Title IX with a number of articles online and in print. Their online spread is fairly extensive with some great columns about Title IX, how far it's come, and where women's spo...more

Firing of Transgender Student-Teacher Raises Title IX Concern
by Title IX Blog
posted May 3, 2012 at 7:05pm

A Wilmington (Ohio) College senior student-teaching at area Hillsboro High School was dismissed in January on his second day of placement.  Recently, however, the Wilmington News Journal raised questions about the role of discrimination in that decis...more

"Saudi Arabia turns deaf ear to Olympic women" by Eman Al Nafjan
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted April 30, 2012 at 11:57am

Last Friday Sheikh Al Fowzan, ironically a member of the Saudi human rights commission, stated that the thought that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) might be implemented in Saudi Arabia make...more

Washington Post Covers Title IX and Campus Rape
by Title IX Blog
posted April 23, 2012 at 1:18pm

Title IX's application to campus sexual assault was in the news this weekend, as the Washington Post profiled colleges' and universities' response to accusations of rape in the wake of the Department of Education's 2011 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) which c...more

Maryland cuts competitive cheer
by Title IX Blog
posted April 21, 2012 at 5:00pm

The first DI school to raise the issue of cheerleading as a sport, Maryland decided last week to cut the team now known as acrobatic and tumbling or acro for short. The acro team is one of 8 varsity teams being cut at Maryland which is suffering from huge...more

You want equality in women's tennis? Give them the last match!
by The Rabbit Hole
posted April 16, 2012 at 11:03am

Kim Clijsters & Novak Djokovic. Photo from the Bleacher Report. Women's tennis is supposedly the world's premier professional sport for women, and in a lot of ways it is.  The women get to play on the same courts, in the same stadiums, with th...more

Do you see sexism in your sport?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 12, 2012 at 4:59pm

Female media managers locked out of press conferences,questions on your sexual preferences and strings of comments on your appearance – just some of theissues raised by an interesting BBC documentary “Sexism in Football” this week. Narr...more

NYU Athletics Department Delivers Inspiring “It Gets Better” Message
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 11, 2012 at 7:01pm

First, let me apologize for my absence. I needed to take a break from blogging for awhile, but I am rejuvenated and back. This It Gets Better video made by the NYU Athletics Department is a great way to reenter the blog world. It is an inspiring and impor...more

Video: Dayton's Title IX Trailblazer Tribute For The NACWAA's 40th Anniversary Contest
by Swish Appeal
posted April 10, 2012 at 11:26am

Former Dayton star Ann Meyers on the importance of young female athletes understanding the value of Title IX. The National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) has announced its 25 nominees for its Title IX Trailblazer T...more

No Saudi female Olympians - now what will the IOC do?
by After Atalanta
posted April 7, 2012 at 11:07am

It seems that after some consideration (or not) Saudi Arabian officials, despite some positive encouragement from the IOC, have decided not to send women--or even a woman--to the Olympic Games this summer in London. The king of gender equality himself--J...more

Michigan high school softball field controversy
by Title IX Blog
posted April 6, 2012 at 8:26pm

The girls' softball team in Avondale, Michigan is embarrassed by the condition of their field. And the players and their supporters are wondering where the money earmarked for the facility's improvement have gone--as they stare at the newly renovated boys...more

Brittney Griner and the media
by After Atalanta
posted April 4, 2012 at 12:37pm

Brittney Griner, MVP of the DI Women's Basketball Championships, said Baylor officials advised her not to read blogs--because they are mean. Not hard for me to imagine. She does read Twitter though, so she's aware of what think about her, her height, he...more

Gender and coaching women’s basketball, Part II
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 1, 2012 at 9:02am

  I had no sooner pushed the button on yesterday’s post on the issue of gender and coaching women’s basketball than ESPN The Magazine, as part of the Worldwide Leader’s flood the zone Title IX coverage, published “The Glass W...more

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