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Heads Up Academics - Call for Papers: The Athletic Issue
by From A Left Wing
posted August 23, 2011 at 8:43pm

Call for Proposals, Special Issue of GLQ: The Athletic Issue Jennifer Locke, Black/White (2009) This issue aims to collate interdisciplinary queer scholarship on sports and physical culture. This work should engage major issues in contemporary criticis...more

I wasn't going to say anything but...really, Phyllis Schlafly?
by Title IX Blog
posted August 22, 2011 at 2:42am

...I can't not. I usually let whatever Phyllis Schlafly says just go by. Most of it I don't even read more than a pargraph of. But she invoked Title IX last week and made statements that don't even border on reality so... Her basic premise: feminists ha...more

Texas Southern Coach Wins $700,000 in Retaliation Case
by Title IX Blog
posted August 16, 2011 at 1:43pm

A jury in federal court in Texas awarded over $700,000 to Surina Dixon, a former coach at Texas Southern University who had sued the school for retaliation and discrimination in violation of Title IX and other law. As we noted when the case was first fi...more

Title IX: Why can’t we all just get along?
by Fair Game News
posted August 8, 2011 at 12:47am

By Laura Pappano Back in April, a NYTimes/CBS News poll found that – surprise! – men and women place nearly identical value on sports opportunities for girls in high school. Asked how important sports were for girls, 68% of men and 74% of women answ...more

SMU Settles Lawsuit with Former Women's Basketball Player
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted August 7, 2011 at 2:48pm

Here is a news report on the conclusion of a lawsuit I first wrote about in September, 2008. You can see that blog post here for more specific information about the former player's allegations. The university and coach Rompola will not comment and the uni...more

The Action Sports Alliance Is Back!
by SkaterGirl
posted August 6, 2011 at 1:43pm

The Action Sports Alliance championed by the likes of Mimi Knoop and Cara-Beth Burnside has been around since 2005 and has won some huge victories in its time as the voice of female skateboarding professionals including equal prize money at the X Games. A...more

District Court Reaches Decision in UC Davis Title IX Case
by Title IX Blog
posted August 5, 2011 at 4:30pm

U.S. District Court judge Frank Damrell issued a 147-page opinion yesterday in the near-decade-long litigation between the University of California at Davis and three female wrestlers who were cut from the men's wrestling team when the coach instituted a ...more

Settlement Ends Litigation Over WVU Tech Softball Facilities
by Title IX Blog
posted August 5, 2011 at 4:28pm

A federal court in West Virginia dismissed a Title IX case against the University of West Virginia Institute of Technology after it agreed to improve facilities for its women's softball team. The lawsuit was filed in 2008 by two softball players after WV...more

Split Decision in Decade-Long UC-Davis Title IX Lawsuit
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted August 4, 2011 at 2:37pm

A 10-year ongoing Title IX lawsuit came to an end August 3 when Federal Judge Frank C. Damrell ruled that the University of California at Davis did not discriminate against a group of female wrestlers, but that it violated Title IX because the number ...more

Title IX and Transgender Students at Single-Sex Colleges
by Title IX Blog
posted August 1, 2011 at 1:17am

Inside Higher Ed recently had an article about transgender students at single-sex colleges. Like this piece in the Boston Globe a few years ago, the article addresses the increasingly common practice of re-issuing diplomas to reflect the new names and ge...more

Title IX and community colleges
by Title IX Blog
posted July 28, 2011 at 12:34pm

The NYT ran a very interesting article last week about the application of and compliance with Title IX at the country's community colleges. Community colleges face unique challenges when trying to comply with the law. It's non-traditional student body, of...more

Why Title IX should (and already does) apply to high schools
by Title IX Blog
posted July 22, 2011 at 3:17pm

As we noted yesterday, a lawsuit against the Department of Education has been filed claiming that the application of the three-prong test to high schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Here's a little more on that. And we are su...more

Lawsuit Challenges Title IX's Application to High Schools
by Title IX Blog
posted July 22, 2011 at 1:01am

The American Sports Council (formerly the College Sports Council) has sued the Department of Education in federal court, arguing that the enforcement of Title IX's three-prong test against high schools violations the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection C...more

Free at last: letting women’s sports grow up
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 20, 2011 at 7:27pm

Just as the Japanese team began celebrating its victory in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, soothing Tweets sprang forth to summarize the impact of the gallant U.S. runners-up. One declared that “little girls everywhere win today,” while another pro...more

Opposite sides of the same coin: The divided world of sports studies
by The Rabbit Hole
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:17am

"To know, more exactly, why it is that a woman can only muster 90 per cent of a man's strength cannot help us comprehend, explain, or change the massive feeling in our society that a woman has no business flexing her muscles anyways." (Willis, 1993) Why ...more

“Ole ole ole ole, We Have the Right to Play.”
by Women in Sport International
posted July 15, 2011 at 12:02pm

Tweet Earlier, this blog reported the astonishing development that FIFA was disqualifying the Iran national women's football team from competing if the players continue to insist on wearing the hijab (article here). Shawne Forde from Sport for Dev...more

Sigh: "La Bahn Arena-Wisconsin’s new facility for women’s hockey games and men’s hockey practice"
by The First Line
posted July 14, 2011 at 12:17pm

The opening paragraph for an article on Wisconsin’s new rink construction reads “[c]onstruction continues on La Bahn Arena, Wisconsin’s new facility for women’s hockey games, men’s hockey practice, and swimming locker rooms.” Whether it’s ...more

78 Idaho School Districts Named in Title IX Complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm

First Washington, then Oregon, now Idaho. The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights recently received a complaint (pdf here -- it's 600 pages) citing 100 high schools in 78 of the 115 school districts in the state, charging them with violatin...more

Civil Rights and Association Leadership
by Mariah Burton Nelson: BEYOND WORKOUTS - Think of Yourself as an Athlete
posted July 7, 2011 at 9:12am

This is a mini-speech I gave in June at the Detroit reunion of Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP*) participants. New York State just legalized gay marriage. Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, surely everyone here appreciates this as a c...more

More on Brenny v UMinnesota Discrimination Lawsuit
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:44pm

Former women’s golf coach Katie Brenny and members of the women’s team have widely different accounts of what transpired in their conversations with former director of golf, John Harris and his son-in-law, Ernie Rose about Katie Brenny and her sexual ...more

Cheerleading Coach Files Title IX Lawsuit Against University of Alabama
by Title IX Blog
posted July 5, 2011 at 8:33am

Debbie Greenwell was the head cheerleading coach at the University of Alabama for more than 24 years, until, she alleges, she was terminated from her position in a dramatic fashion in response to her advocacy for equal treatment for her student-athletes. ...more

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