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Slippery Rock settles--again
by Title IX Blog
posted December 23, 2009 at 2:35pm

The gender equity case against Slippery Rock University that started in 2006 and was reopened last spring when some felt SRU was not meeting the settlement's requirements has settled again. The university has promised to improve the softball stadium, comm...more

It Takes a Team: We're sorry to see you go
by Title IX Blog
posted December 22, 2009 at 3:23pm

It is with great amount of sadness that we report, to those who do not yet know, that the Women's Sports Foundation has decided to eliminate the It Takes a Team initiative to eliminate homophobia in sports. Run by Dr. Pat Griffin for the past five years,...more

What a sport girl wants for Christmas…
by Fair Game News
posted December 21, 2009 at 6:26pm

By Katie Culver 1. A legitimately equal opportunity to develop athletic skills and play sports — from the start. This means: girls should be handed a ball (instead of a doll or toy purse) as soon as they can hold something. They should be dressed appr...more

Spirit as Sport
by Title IX Blog
posted December 21, 2009 at 12:18pm

Last week the New Mexico Activities Association member-institutions voted to make spirit (cheerleading and dance) a sport. Officials quoted in the news reports about the vote were pretty clear that the primary purpose of this change was to help schools a...more

Former CEO of Women’s Sports Foundation Donna Lopiano discusses the impact of Title IX on women’s sp...
by Swish Appeal
posted December 17, 2009 at 6:04pm

Former CEO of Women’s Sports Foundation Donna Lopiano discusses the impact of Title IX on women’s sports, and examines the ongoing nature of widespread social change. "Major social change takes about three generations -- 60 years -- to really get a...more

Sexual harassment in the digital age
by Title IX Blog
posted December 17, 2009 at 12:29pm

I have to admit that the first time I heard of sexting (the sending of sexually suggestive--or explicit!--text messages) was on Glee a few weeks ago. The subject was treated with the amount of levity that is appropriate for the show, but apparently sextin...more

Study uses Title IX to show effect of athletic participation on educational attainment
by Title IX Blog
posted December 16, 2009 at 1:41pm

Via Gregg Easterbrook's recent column at ESPN.com, which criticizes college athletics for failing to seriously incorporate an academic mission, I learned of this forthcoming article by Wharton School professor Betsey Stevenson (draft here), which studies ...more

UNCC decides to add football
by Title IX Blog
posted December 15, 2009 at 4:14pm

The trustees at the University of North Carolina Charlotte have decided to go forward with the plan to add a football team. The team will make its debut in 2013.This is also a good time to mention that Hofstra University cut its team last week, shortly af...more

About that pregnant teen athlete who wasn’t allowed to play volleyball controversy
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 14, 2009 at 6:04pm

Originally written for and cross-posted from BlogHer.com When Mackenzie McCollum was told she couldn’t play volleyball at school anymore until she had a doctor’s note she was upset for several reasons. First of all, she wasn’t telling many people s...more

Happy Holidays from the Women's Sports Foundation
by Athletic Women Blog
posted December 11, 2009 at 12:25pm

If you follow women's sports, you'll no doubt see many familiar faces in this 2009 highlights video from the Women's Sports Foundation. ...more

Invitational in DC to focus on athletics and equity
by Title IX Blog
posted December 10, 2009 at 12:24pm

We can tell there has been the proverbial changing of the guard in Washington in many ways including the upcoming and inaugural Title IX Holiday Invitational and Conference Classic. Part of its goal is to "celebrate the fact that the Nation’s Capitol is...more

5 reasons many girls don’t play sports at my high school (and it’s not because they don’t want to)
by Fair Game News
posted December 9, 2009 at 12:15pm

By Hannah Ritchie Only one in four girls at Colleyville Heritage High School in Texas, my school, participate in sports while more than half of boys are on sports teams. This is NOT because girls aren’t interested. Last December, 3,374 girls in gr...more

Taking aim at the alma mater
by After Atalanta
posted December 8, 2009 at 6:58pm

See, I knew I would be back to critiquing someone this week. And how appropriate that is the anonymous columnist from my alma mater's student newspaper. (In my day, when I wrote for The New Hampshire, they didn't allow anonymous columnists.)Anyway, anonym...more

Title IX in the comics
by Title IX Blog
posted December 8, 2009 at 12:24pm

A few summers ago I spent some time hanging out in the archives at Radcliffe College looking at the papers from the Women's Equity Action League, a group that was instrumental in fighting for the passage and enforcement of Title IX in the 1970s and 80s.I ...more

Lesbian Basketball Coach Wins Case
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted December 7, 2009 at 11:52am

In October I gave an update on three pending lawsuits in women’s sports about discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation. One of these cases has now been decided and the lesbian coach who filed the lawsuit won. Lorri Sulpizi...more

Harassment cases roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted December 5, 2009 at 12:43pm

Here is a roundup of recent judicial decisions in Title IX harassment cases: Dominican College in Blauvelt, New York, was unsuccessful in its motion to dismiss a claim alleging that the College's response to charges that one of its students had raped ano...more

Mesa coach wins damages in retaliation case
by Title IX Blog
posted December 4, 2009 at 12:19pm

A jury in San Diego Superior Court found that Mesa Community College retaliated against former basketball coach when it terminated her position for speaking out against inequities in women's athletics, in violation of Title IX. Lorri Sulpizio's complaint...more

ESPN profiles case of pregnancy discrimination in high school sports
by Title IX Blog
posted December 3, 2009 at 12:36pm

Via Womenstake (among other blogs) I learned that ESPN recently profiled a case of discrimination against a pregnant high school athlete in an episode of Outside the Lines. Mackenzie McCollum was a star setter on her high school volleyball team in Fort W...more

"And I treat a Duchess like a flower girl"
by Women's Sports Blog
posted December 3, 2009 at 12:19pm

It's not a question of good manners, or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners. It's having the same manner for every human soul. While Henry Higgins is being hypocritical here, since he certainly treats Colonel Pickering better than anyone el...more

Deford addresses cheerleading
by Title IX Blog
posted December 2, 2009 at 5:05pm

When someone I rarely see says, when I sit down for a catching-up chat, "I heard something about Title IX recently," and ponders where he heard it, it means that I probably should have posted about Frank Deford's commentary last week on Morning Edition. D...more

Spike this: Pregnant volleyball player misserved by school officials
by Fair Game News
posted December 1, 2009 at 9:05pm

By Laura Pappano Sure, research shows that high school girls who play sports are less likely than their non-athletic peers to get pregnant. But sometimes it happens. When it does, schools and districts need fair and sensible policies that allow girls (w...more

Fundraising at issue in complaint against Oregon school district
by Title IX Blog
posted December 1, 2009 at 5:29pm

The Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating an anonymous complaint against the Lebanon (Oregon) Community School District for sex discrimination in its athletics program. District officials told the local press that the complaint addresses the...more

Grace Under Pressure indeed! Girl’s ice hockey team scores goal against homophobia
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted December 1, 2009 at 2:50pm

I wrote about this high school girls ice hockey team in New Brunswick, Canada a few weeks ago. The Woodstock Thunder stood up against the homophobic reactions of some of their opponents when two teammates came out as gay. This article describes some of t...more

Is collegiate football dying?
by Title IX Blog
posted December 1, 2009 at 11:41am

Well if you listen to the commentary that has come with the announcement that Northeastern University has cut its football program you would think we were back in the early 1900s when football almost died a quick death due to concerns over morality and m...more

What ESPN Left on the Cutting Room Floor
by Womenstake
posted November 30, 2009 at 6:52pm

by Lara S. Kaufmann, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center If you watched ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” yesterday, you know it included a segment on a client of ours, a 17-year old high school senior in Fort Worth, Texas. In case you miss...more

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