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"College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity" (NY Times)
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted April 26, 2011 at 12:18pm

The following is an article published on the New York Times sports section (Apr. 25, 2011) by KATIE THOMAS, titled, “College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity”. Read it and give me your thoughts! Ever since Congress passed the f...more

Title IX's Sexual Harassment Guidelines & Beckett Brennan's 60 Minutes Story
by Swish Appeal
posted April 25, 2011 at 12:59pm

For the full video, click here. An April 17 CBS News 60 Minutes story (above) described the case of former University of the Pacific women's basketball player Beckett Brennan, who was sexually assaulted in 2008 and eventually stopped playing basketball...more

Delaware athletes file Office of Civil Rights complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:49pm

There has been a lot of press about the cutting of men's outdoor track and cross country at University of Delaware since the announcement was made in January. We haven't commented on it because it has been the usual blame game: blame on Title IX mostly, b...more

Law article seeks Title IX's application to transgender student harassment
by Title IX Blog
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:14pm

A law student's article in the Texas Review of Law and Politics Journal seeks to leverage Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination to offer fully protection against harassment to transgender students. Citing statistics from GLSEN, the author, Tina S...more

Minnesota's Mankato cutting sports
by Title IX Blog
posted April 22, 2011 at 2:38pm

Somehow it flew under our radar last fall that Minnesota State University Mankato was planning on cutting four sports: men's swimming/diving, women's bowling, and men's and women's tennis.But they indeed were. And then the student-athletes and their suppo...more

Washington school district enters voluntary agreement to comply with Title IX
by Title IX Blog
posted April 21, 2011 at 12:09pm

The Office for Civil Rights accepted a voluntary agreement from Federal Way School District, one of the 26 school districts in Washington State named in Title IX complaint recently accepted by the agency. The complaint alleged that a participation gap o...more

Learn more about fair pay
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted April 21, 2011 at 1:28am

Interested in learning more about fair pay? Join the National Women's Law Center and the White House on Thursday, April 21st at 1:30pm CST for a conference call about bridging the wage gap. On the call to share information about policy solutions and a...more

Former coach files separate lawsuit
by Title IX Blog
posted April 20, 2011 at 3:08pm

Amber Parker, the former coach of the girls' high school basketball team in Franklin County, Indiana, has filed a lawsuit against the district alleging that the non-renewal of her teaching and coaching contract was due to her other lawsuit claiming dispar...more

Addressing Title IX in urban and minority populations
by Title IX Blog
posted April 19, 2011 at 1:53pm

Two items of note: one current, one forthcoming.Out now is the book/guide, Hey Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets.It is based on the work done in the non-profit Girls for Gender Equity based on Brook...more

Woman on men’s college tennis team wins conference rookie-of-the-week honors. Remind me: Why isn’t D3 tennis co-ed?
by Fair Game News
posted April 15, 2011 at 5:11pm

By Laura Pappano Last week after Wheelock College freshman Claire O’Donoghue, a member of the Men’s Tennis Team (yes, you read that correctly), earned a 6-1, 6-0 victory in singles and an 8-6 win in doubles with her male partner (plus narrowly lost a...more

Can female sport administrators be “ideal leaders”?
by lcrutch
posted April 12, 2011 at 6:10pm

Research shows that married women with children are less likely to be "ideal leaders" in the sports world....more

Update on lesbian high school softball player’s lawsuit against coach and school district
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 12, 2011 at 3:27pm

In December I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a lesbian high school softball player, Skye Wyatt, and her mother against the Kilgore, Texas school district. Here is a December news item about the case. In a nutshell the lawsuit alleges that the softball co...more

A chance to listen: I’m not just a coach, I’m a female coach
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted April 12, 2011 at 12:36pm

Maya Hamilton is an Assistant Swim Coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student Maya Hamilton. Sometimes the research on the lack of females in coaching and the issues they face seems like a broke...more

Commentary on Yale and "Dear Colleague"
by Title IX Blog
posted April 11, 2011 at 5:22pm

There has been a significant amount of press about both the complaint filed by Yale students alleging the university has not done enough to remedy sexual harassment and the Obama administration's "Dear Colleague" letter about dealing with harassment. Ofte...more

Touching the cultural third rail of sports and gender
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 9, 2011 at 2:38pm

Tweet My “Outside the Lines” appearance Sunday prompted the understandable and passionate response from gay and transgender sports advocate Pat Griffin that I thought it would, although that was never my purpose in saying what I did. I responded on ...more

5th Circuit Issues Decision in Single-Sex Education Case
by Title IX Blog
posted April 8, 2011 at 11:20am

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today in the case challenging the Vermilion (Louisiana) School Board's decision to institute single-sex classes at Rene A. Rost Middle School. The parent of female students who had been placed in all-...more

Female Athletes Fly
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted April 7, 2011 at 11:28pm

There was a song that played at the end of the women’s basketball championship game called \”Fly\” by Nicki Minaj and Rihanna that has stuck with me. These two powerful women, in their own industry, are singing about success, as they state “I came...more

Student-Athletes inspired by women of experience
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted April 7, 2011 at 6:13pm

University of Indianapolis student-athletes Shanese McGregor, Kristin Turner and Nicole Duncan are now primed to carry the torch for women in athletics. Lee Morrison, NACWAA member and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, sponsored the three women to...more

New group researching legal equality issues for female athletes launched at Queen's University Faculty of Law
by Women in Sport International
posted April 7, 2011 at 2:55pm

A new research group, The Women in Sport Legal Research Group, is proud to announce that it will conducting important legal  research on gender equality in sport. The group, which has been working in various degrees since 2009, is proud to welco...more

OCR "Dear Colleague" letter addresses sexual harassment in schools
by Title IX Blog
posted April 6, 2011 at 1:03pm

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights today released a new guidance document geared to help schools, colleges, and universities understand and implement their responsibilities under Title IX to prevent and correct sexual harassment. The ...more

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