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PA Whistleblower profiled in NY Times
by Title IX Blog
posted November 30, 2009 at 11:47am

Yesterday's New York Times contained a profile of Robert Landau, a Pennsylvania man who has been filing Title IX complaints -- more than 30 -- against local school districts since his own daughter was a student athlete in 1989. We wrote about Landau las...more

Caster Semenya, the gender binary, and a case for the ‘sport continuum’
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 26, 2009 at 10:02pm

If you’re only vaguely familiar with the troubling case of sex-testing in sport and the Caster Semenya case, a new article in The New Yorker by Ariel Levy may offer the most incisive, comprehensive look at the case and the issues around it. Levy masterf...more

Re-framing Title IX
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 23, 2009 at 7:51pm

Women’s sports blogs have been abuzz recently with the news that an Alabama softball coach has filed a Title IX complaint against Mobile County schools. In the complaint, coach Tyler Murray alleges that girls sports are denied access and facilities give...more

Sports for girls are more than play in Bangladesh, they’re tool for progress (even survival)
by Fair Game News
posted November 23, 2009 at 2:16pm

Girls playing handball in Bangladesh By Laura Pappano Sport is a tool for social, political and economic equality. In Bangladesh — where girls face routine physical violence, child marriage, and are denied the same access to education as boys — tha...more

Why are men running the show in women’s fastpitch softball?
by Fair Game News
posted November 17, 2009 at 12:15pm

By Megan Wood I’ve played softball for 15 years, and for nearly my entire career I have been coached by men. Sure, a few female pitching coaches helped on the side, but T-ball through high school, all of my head and assistant coaches were guys. Even...more

Girls hockey battle rages on
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted November 16, 2009 at 11:31pm

Girls’ hockey players have been blatantly discriminated against ever since I started playing 15 years ago… We get worse ice times at worse arenas and are seen as a "lesser" version of the boys’ game. This makes me sick, but I have to admit, that I ...more

Softball coach takes on football
by Title IX Blog
posted November 16, 2009 at 12:15pm

Usually when we hear about a complaint filed by or on behalf of softball players, said complaint usually compares the treatment softball receives or the facilities it has access to as compared to baseball. But a recent complaint, initially filed anonymous...more

Ski Jumping: Not everyone is moving on
by After Atalanta
posted November 16, 2009 at 11:21am

The IOC has stated that, in the wake of the Canadian appeal's court decision to uphold the lower court decision, it is pleased that it can now move on and focus on the forthcoming games.Yes, it must be nice when a legal entity says it cannot hold you resp...more

Final blow for female ski jumpers
by After Atalanta
posted November 14, 2009 at 12:41pm

The appeal, filed by a group of female ski jumpers attempting to get their sport into the Vancouver Games, was dismissed after two days of hearings in a Canadian court of appeals this week. The court agreed with the lower court ruling that it was the IOC ...more

DII field hockey team in NC cut
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:12pm

It's never good news when I pull out my calculator and head to the Department of Education's Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool. And this time it's bad news for Catawba College in North Carolina. According to a very brief piece in USA Today, t...more

Illinois high school lawsuit ongoing
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 1:05am

In Canton, IL a lawsuit brought by two parents alleging inequities between the girls' sports program and the boys' program remains unsettled. Mediation had been ongoing but the school board rejected this week the proposed settlement and thus litigation re...more

Title IX Dads
by Title IX Blog
posted November 11, 2009 at 4:13pm

In what is being called a love letter to Title IX, writer, editor and father Mark Schmitt penned his tribute to Title IX, his daughter, Little League and social change last week in a very nice column about the legislation in his magazine The American Pros...more

College Basketball: Our Crowning Achievement
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 11, 2009 at 12:28pm

Every time we reach this part of the year, it seems like the news is better. There is more coverage, more interest, another compelling set of stories. I can't think of another sport played by women that is on that kind of trajectory, and it's also col...more

Lapchick weighs in on new NCAA president
by Title IX Blog
posted November 10, 2009 at 11:39am

In a recent issue of Sport Business Journal (which, unfortunately, is only available to subscribers), Dr. Richard Lapchick, who is notable for his many reports on gender and racial diversity in sport and the experiences of collegiate student athletes, has...more

Fresno State settles with former assistant track coach
by Title IX Blog
posted November 9, 2009 at 1:19pm

We blogged earlier this year about Ramona Pagel's case against Fresno State, in which she claimed that the athletic department failed to renew her contract and passed her over for promotion to head coach because she advocated for equal treatment for femal...more

OCR to investigate whether University of Kansas Athletics discriminates against men
by Title IX Blog
posted November 7, 2009 at 2:18pm

According to CollegeSwimming.com, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate a complaint filed against the University of Kansas last month, alleging that the University's failure to offer a men's swimming and diving team violat...more

More universities add competitive cheer... I mean, "Team Stunt and Gymnastics"
by Title IX Blog
posted November 6, 2009 at 11:35am

A <a href="http://title-ix.blogspot.com/Team and individual stats will be compiled during four compulsory stunting rounds, followed by each team's uniquely choreographed final routine judged for its degree of difficulty and the ability of its performer...more

Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) settles Title IX case
by Womenstake
posted November 5, 2009 at 7:16pm

by Kolbe Franklin, Program Associate, National Women’s Law Center A group of parents recently entered into a settlement agreement with the Florida High School Athletic Association. The parents filed a lawsuit last spring after FHSAA approved a sta...more

Subverting Title IX by remedying discrimination against women?
by After Atalanta
posted November 5, 2009 at 5:24pm

I so appreciate the growing number of voices in the blogosphere talking about sport and gender. It means that when I just cannot muster enough snark to address the latest issue, there are others who will.So I have indeed read about the latest investigatio...more

Connecticut boy calls state field hockey policy into question
by Title IX Blog
posted November 3, 2009 at 6:10pm

The Hartford Courant recently profiled a middle school field hockey player in Avon, Connecticut, named Blake Armistead. Though he has been allowed to play on the girls' team in middle school, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference does not a...more

The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted November 3, 2009 at 5:16pm

I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport. This week, I’m compelled to bring us back to a time before the Internet and social media, a time when we relied upon the telephone....more

U.S. Commission on civil fights to look at admissions, athletics
by Title IX Blog
posted November 2, 2009 at 8:44pm

InsideHigherEd.com reports today that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has commenced an "inquiry" into admissions standards that may be favoring male applicants who are increasingly underrepresented in the student bodies of many liberal arts colleges. ...more

Adding a sport just to recruit men- Fine, but Title IX compliance is too expensive?
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 2, 2009 at 2:39pm

Small, selective liberal arts colleges have been whining for years about their gender imbalance. Turns out that young women have, shockingly, bought the message that they can do anything and that includes becoming extremely successful candidates for col...more

Early talk of retaliation in firing of tennis coach
by Title IX Blog
posted October 29, 2009 at 7:30pm

Last week, Ball State University in Indiana fired its women's tennis coach. Kathy Bull was in her 22nd year as head coach of the team. The firing, according to the athletic department, is the result of NCAA violations. Ball State, until earlier this month...more

Study finds Williams' outburst reinforces stereotypes
by mhueter
posted October 29, 2009 at 2:47pm

Below, please find a release from Marie Hardin, Associate Director for Research, John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Using content analysis, Hardin and her team studied media coverage of Serena Williams' outburst (watch the YouTube video below to se...more

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