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Why we don’t need Girls and Women in Sports Day
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted February 2, 2012 at 1:53am

Tweet Over the weekend I drove by the public park where I used to play softball as a girl, in the years just before Title IX. I noticed a group of a half dozen girls, in their competitive full attire, from gloves down to socks, stirrups and cleats, hudd...more

Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day #NGWSD
by Pretty Tough
posted February 1, 2012 at 8:55pm

It is the first Wednesday in February which means it’s the day of the year to honor the athletic successes of women and girls in your community. The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) is celebrating the 26th National Girls an...more

Vote Now to Help Julie Foudy Send a Deserving Girl to the Olympics #NGWSD
by Pretty Tough
posted February 1, 2012 at 1:20pm

I love playing sports for a long list of reasons, but I especially love sports because they help define who we are: Sports give you confidence. Sports give you strength. Sports give you a voice (hence, the nickname Loudy Foudy). :) Sports teach t...more

Title IX Inspiration & Invitation
by One Sport Voice
posted February 1, 2012 at 1:17pm

Happy National Girls & Women in Sport Day! This year is the 40th anniversary of the passing of Title IX, landmark federal legislation which dramatically increased sport participation opportunities for females in educational contexts. We have many re...more

#NGWSD 2012
by stephaniemp
posted February 1, 2012 at 10:38am

  Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! This (along with International Women's Day) is one of my favorite days of the year. Unlike Christmas and your birthday, you don't have to call/receive calls from family and old friends and suffer throu...more

Recess to Remember #NGWSD
by Running Rebecca
posted February 1, 2012 at 2:14am

I guess you could say that Pompositticut Elementary School was where my interest in running all began. Recess and gym class to be exact. We didn’t do laps or interval work or any specific training to one day be a professional distance runner, just c...more

Evergreen School District in Washington Resolves Title IX Complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted January 31, 2012 at 5:27pm

Evergreen School District in Washington State has reportedly entered into a voluntary resolution agreement with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. Under the agreement, OCR agrees to suspend its investigation that was triggered this su...more

Women Talk Sports & Pretty Tough Support Ready to Fly Film
by Pretty Tough
posted January 30, 2012 at 2:43pm

Women Talk Sports and Pretty Tough are pleased to support the new documentary film Ready to Fly directed by William A. Kerig. A stand-up-and-cheer, feel-good movie, Ready to Fly follows World Champion ski jumper Lindsey Van and her women’s ski jump...more

Women's College Sport Participation Data Just Released (Acosta & Carpenter, 1977-2012)
by Title IX Blog
posted January 29, 2012 at 5:01pm

We have, countless times during our research and writing about Title IX and equity in sports, said "thank goodness for Drs. Linda Carpenter and Vivian Acosta." For 35 years now these women have compiled and categorized and interpreted data about the parti...more

Title IX Retaliation Case Filed Against Jackson State
by Title IX Blog
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:37am

Denise Taylor, former women's basketball coach at Jackson State University, has reportedly filed a retaliation suit against the university in federal court. Her suit alleges that she was terminated with two years left on her contract in retaliation for ...more

Sudan’s Islamic Fiqh Council bans formation of womens soccer team
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:11am

January 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa (religious order) saying that it is forbidden for the country to create a womens soccer team, deeming it an immoral act.The religious authority said that any request made...more

Possible Progress In Castle Rock Title IX Complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:00am

This past week's meeting which would have addressed the Title IX complaint against the Castle Rock school district (Washington) was postponed until next month. But administrators say they are taking steps to remedy some of the inequities upon which&n...;more

Commentary on Gender Equity in Sports
by One Sport Voice
posted January 19, 2012 at 7:05pm

Based on my previous blog about hockey injuries, checking, and unequal media coverage of two Minnesota hockey players who were recently severely injured, I was asked to write a commentary for Minnesota Public Radio (@MPR) You can read the commentary on t...more

Case Raises Question of Title IX's Application to Private High School
by Title IX Blog
posted January 17, 2012 at 7:19pm

A recently-filed federal lawsuit claims that Poly Prep High School in Brooklyn violated Title IX by responding with deliberate indifference to knowledge that a football coach was sexually abusing his student-athletes. This case is vulnerable to dismissal...more

Lacrosse League in Connecticut Faces Title IX Suit
by Title IX Blog
posted January 16, 2012 at 7:07pm

The New Canaan Lacrosse Association, a private youth lacrosse league in Connecticut, is defending litigation claiming that it violates Title IX for failing to provide equal treatment to girls and boys. It is unclear, however, that the law applies, given ...more

Public Single-Sex Education Vulnerable to Legal Challenge
by Title IX Blog
posted January 16, 2012 at 2:25pm

A recent essay in the National Law Journal by emerita Columbia law professor Vivian Berger criticizes the trend in single-sex education. Noting that the "bloom may be off the rose" in light of some recent, high-profile decisions to cancel single-sex clas...more

Back to the drawing board for the NCAA student-athlete stipend plan
by Title IX Blog
posted January 16, 2012 at 12:29am

The NCAA Convention has been going on in New Orleans. High-profile issues were on the docket this year including the controversial $2,000 student-athlete stipend. That the issue was pushed back to the working subcommittee that proposed it initially last s...more

And now college athletics ‘reform’ season begins
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

Alabama had barely hoisted the BCS national championship trophy late Monday night when the long-winded explications of the entire college athletic landscape were being churned out. Actually, those missives have been continuing for a good long while. But ...more

Jablonski v. Privette: Gender Equity Fails Again
by One Sport Voice
posted January 11, 2012 at 12:27pm

In my last blog, following severe injuries of two MN high school hockey players, I argued checking should be banned at all levels and for all hockey players. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Rachel Blount wrote a piece title “Despite tragedies, ho...more

Court Dismisses Claims in Bully-Suicide Case
by Title IX Blog
posted January 10, 2012 at 1:55am

Last week, a federal court dismissed claims filed by the estate of Jon Carmichael, a thirteen-year-old from Texas who committed suicide in March of 2010, after enduring years of bullying by his peers. The court reasoned that the plaintiff's complaint con...more

Update on Lawsuit Filed by Kilgore, TX Lesbian Softball Player and Her Mother
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted January 4, 2012 at 3:22pm

Last January I started the year describing a situation in a Kilgore, TX high school where a lesbian softball player was, according to allegations in her lawsuit against the school, athletic director and coaches, treated outrageously by her coaches. Skye W...more

How Diverse Are Women's College Sports?
by Title IX Blog
posted January 4, 2012 at 9:51am

Recently, the NCAA published the most recent school-year's participation data, which includes breakdowns by sex, race, sport, division, and conference. Because this data set goes back to the 1999-2000 school year, I decided to use it to look for trends i...more

Will 2012 be the tipping point?
by After Atalanta
posted January 3, 2012 at 3:41pm

I believe somewhat in tipping points--the moment in which society says "no way; no more; too much." Of course certain historical moments refute the concept of the tipping point; i.e. the Holocaust (uh-oh did I just lose that argument?). But it works some ...more

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