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Title IX: Another Alabama School District Opts to End Single-Sex Middle School Classrooms
by Title IX Blog
posted November 29, 2011 at 7:48pm

  Another school district in Alabama has opted to end its single-sex middle school classrooms. Tallapoosa School District has said it will stop its single-sex program at the end of this year. This program had been in place for several years and, ...more

Title IX: Ann Arbor School District No Longer Plans to Exempt Football from Cuts
by Title IX Blog
posted November 28, 2011 at 9:47pm

This post follows up on a story we blogged about in June, about a budget reduction plan by the Ann Arbor School District to cut all the freshman teams at its three high schools, with the exception of the freshman football teams. As we explained back th...more

"Most of us are still Neanderthals" - Sexuality in Professional Sports
by The Rabbit Hole
posted November 27, 2011 at 4:01pm

On November 22, 2011 the NY Daily News published an article titled "MLB's new collective bargaining agreement to add 'sexual orientation' to discrimination clause."Sounds progressive right? Not exactly. The new CBA, released Tuesday, added the words &ldq...;more

Video: Post-conflict recovery through sport
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted November 25, 2011 at 12:36pm

This is another inspiring short from Women Win looking at different ways women find to recover from trauma suffered during conflict. It might sound a bit facetious to say sport can heal those kinds of scars but watching this, you see it can at least help ...more

Why We Need State and Federal Non-Discrimination Laws That Include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted November 23, 2011 at 12:25pm

Sorry for the clunky title, but I couldn’t figure out another way to get the point across in a snappy clever way in fewer words. Nikki Williams has been teaching geography for three years and was an assistant volleyball at a public charter school j...more

Smart Like Daddy/Pretty Like Mommy
by Pretty Tough
posted November 22, 2011 at 1:28pm

That’s what the Gymboree onesies say. Sheesh. Did Gymboree learn nothing from JCPenney or Forever 21? The iconic children’s clothing retailer has come under fire for selling onesies emblazoned with “Smart Like Dad” for boys, a...more

Massachusetts Adds Transgender Protection to Anti-Discrimination Laws
by Title IX Blog
posted November 18, 2011 at 10:06pm

In my home state of Massachusetts, the legislature recently added a prohibition against discrimination on the basis of gender identity to anti-discrimination laws that cover education. Gender identity is defined int he law to mean "a person's gender-rela...more

Track & Field Coach Files Retaliation Suit Against Central Connecticut State
by Title IX Blog
posted November 17, 2011 at 11:10pm

A former track and cross-country coach at Central Connecticut State University has filed a lawsuit claiming that the university decided not to renew her contract in retaliation for her efforts to secure equal treatment for her team. Brenda Webb was hired...more

Tennessee Rejects Equal Pay for Women's Athletics Officials
by Title IX Blog
posted November 17, 2011 at 2:15pm

The Washington Post reports that the University of Tennessee recently rejected an internal complaint filed by three employees of women's athletics, arguing that their salaries were discriminatory because they were less than their counterparts in men's ath...more

Recommendations for cuts in at Maryland
by Title IX Blog
posted November 16, 2011 at 11:08pm

The recommendations for how many and which teams will be cut from UMD's athletic department came faster than we expected. And it seems like President Wallace Loh will make his decision, based on the committee's recommendations, sooner than he had planned ...more

Title IX and Penn State
by Title IX Blog
posted November 16, 2011 at 12:33am

In a two-part column at Justia.com (see here and here), Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman and Pittsburgh law professor Debbie Brake examine whether Penn State is liable under Title IX for the sexual abuse committed by former Assistant Coach Jerry Sand...more

3 Concrete Actions That Can Make a Difference for Girls & Women in Sport
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 14, 2011 at 12:18pm

On November 2, 2011 we, the Tucker Center, hosted a one day conference on creating change for girls and women in sport. There was a great deal of dialogue amongst participants as to how to achieve such change. You can see the collage of pictures from our...more

Women's Sports Foundation Reports on Participation Trends in High School Athletics
by Title IX Blog
posted November 12, 2011 at 11:21am

The Women's Sports Foundation has published a new report called “Progress Without Equity: The Provision of High School Athletic Opportunity in the United States, by Gender 1993-94 through 2005-06.” Using data from the Civil Rights Data Collection a...more

Beyond brooms and butter beer: Quidditch’s social conscience
by Fair Game News
posted November 11, 2011 at 6:42pm

By Rachael Goldenberg The fifth Quidditch World Cup happening this weekend on New York City’s Randall’s Island is looking like a bonafide event: 1) tickets are required 2) there is a halftime show, and 3) there are now some 100 teams (2,000 athletes...more

Maryland athletics cutting teams
by Title IX Blog
posted November 10, 2011 at 9:34am

University of Maryland has some tough decisions to make. The department, which is required to be self-sustaining (no money from the general fund; it does receive student fees) is not. Facing major deficits, it now faces the task of cutting teams--many tea...more

New study on sexual harassment of youth
by Title IX Blog
posted November 9, 2011 at 3:36pm

We all knew that grade 7 through 12 are not always pleasant times for kids. We know about bullying and its severe effects.But a new study by the American Association of University Women has revealed some pretty bleak statistics around the sexual harassmen...more

University of York Centre for Women's Studies: Call for Papers on Sport, Gender and Media
by anngaff
posted November 9, 2011 at 11:41am

The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York (UK) invites all postgraduate and early career researchers interested in gendered aspects of sport to a one-day interdisciplinary conference.  This is a growing academic field which add...more

No money for women in sport? Big Deal
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted November 9, 2011 at 9:45am

Wondering why female sports in the UK fly below the radar? Could be it because just 0.5 per cent of sponsorship money goes to all-women sports? A report launched this week "Big Deal? The case for commercial investment in women’s sport", found that 61.1 ...more

Interesting start to the revelation of the effects of living stipends for athletes
by Title IX Blog
posted November 9, 2011 at 9:43am

Who was going to pull the trigger first, we wondered, when we heard about the NCAA's approval of living stipends for DI student-athletes.Erin noted the Title IX implications. But would schools and leagues realize them? Would a school be bullied into provi...more

Not so surprised by PSU - Rene Portland was sheltered for years
by After Atalanta
posted November 9, 2011 at 9:37am

Of course Penn State was going to cover up the abuse perpetuated by one of its coaches. Of course the institution that sheltered openly homophobic and not-so-openly racist basketball coach Rene Portland for years--years--would cover up for a former assi...more

Tucker Center Girls & Women in Sport Conference a Success
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 8, 2011 at 9:08am

On November 2, 2011 over 150 participants gathered on the University of Minnesota campus to discuss current issues in girls and women and to discuss strategies of change at a conference hosted by the Tucker Center. In the 40 years since the passage of Ti...more

A New, Old Model of Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted November 8, 2011 at 2:44am

Since I returned from the espnW Summit a month or so ago, coupled with the WNBA Champions Minnesota Lynx win and the media treatment of their season, the conference the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport just hosted about creating change...more

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