Today is the last day to comment on the OCR’s proposed Title IX regulations. I submitted my comment just now, and I was the 96,841st person to do so. Wow!If you were waiting for the last minute like I was, here is the link to the docket, which includes…
Month: January 2019
Some good investigative reporting in Iowa led to this recent article about the gender imbalance in athletic department travel at University of Iowa and Iowa State. Both institutions benefit from wealthy donors who offer up their private planes for coac…
Add captionKellie Harrington is a name long familiar to fans of Irish women’s boxing, but in the last 12 months she has stepped right out into the mainstream. The World Champion has just added European Boxer of the Year to her bling collection. I…
It took me some time to come up with the (somewhat simple) title for this post. I tried to distill what was so furiously frustrating about the fact the Florida State University has hired Kendal Briles as the football team’s offensive coordinator.First,…
Dr. Bernice Sandler passed away this week at the age of 90. She went by Bunny, but was even more well-known as the Godmother of Title IX.Her obituary in the Washington Post described how she came to make advocacy for gender equality in education her li…
Svetlana Vinnikova the Muaythai nominee for IWGA Athlete of the Year Awards season usually sees women and men going for separate prizes, but more and more the contests pits athlete against athlete. Two martial arts women from Karate and Muaythai are up…