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National Women’s Law Center’s Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day
by Pretty Tough
posted December 8, 2010 at 4:51pm

Are you a female athlete? Do you have a blog, Facebook or Twitter account? Do you have a great story about how sports positively impacts your life? For the first time, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is hosting Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sport...more

Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted December 8, 2010 at 10:19am

Hey, the National Women’s Law Center wants to draw attention to opportunities for women to play sports by holding a national “Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day,” on December 8th and drawing attention to Title IX issues.Let me quote their website...more

Lisa Howe Responds to Media Attention
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted December 7, 2010 at 9:58am

Lisa Howe, through her attorney, has released a statement reacting to the media attention and support from the Belmont community she has received since her dismissal as the university's women's soccer coach. I hope the Christian leadership at Belmont read...more

Nattering ninnies of negativism
by Athletic Women Blog
posted December 3, 2010 at 1:32pm

My week started with a guest appearance on Women Talk Sports Radio. I was invited on to talk about gender segregation in sports. The discussion centered on an article written by a promising high school journalist named Julia Friedman. I had been forewarne...more

Maybe It’s My Fault: From A Female Athlete
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted December 3, 2010 at 12:29pm

(Thank you, Michael Jordan and Lebron James, for inspiring this)…. Maybe it’s my fault. Maybe I led you to believe That I don’t deserve to play, Or that girls don’t belong in sports. Maybe I let you think That women’s spor...more

Urban girls: Have we overdone the pregnancy and drug warnings? Should we talk sports instead?
by Fair Game News
posted December 1, 2010 at 9:36pm

By Laura Pappano On Monday, two girls from Teen Voices, a magazine (and website!) aimed at helping urban girls counteract negative media images, interviewed me for an article they are writing about Title IX (and, their passion, women’s basketball). Ho...more

Female athletes should not be measured in comparison to men
by Same Size Balls
posted November 30, 2010 at 11:59pm

You play like a girl! Yes, yes I do. Because I am a girl, even when I play sports. But as much as we don’t like to admit it, the XX chromosome combination is nothing we can change or alter. XX means that women don’t have as much testosterone as men,...more

NWLC webinar
by Title IX Blog
posted November 30, 2010 at 8:57pm

The National Women's Law Center, much in the news lately because of the filings of 12 Title IX complaints against various school districts nationwide, will be offering a free webinar about Title IX compliance tomorrow. Senior Counsel at NWLC Neena Chaudhr...more

Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show #7 - Is the Division of Sports by Gender Sexist?
by anngaff
posted November 28, 2010 at 2:44pm

****TODAY'S SHOW IS AT 7PM ET, 1 HOUR LATER THAN USUAL***** A high schooler named Julia Friedman recently wrote an article for her school newspaper asserting that the very division of sports by gender is sexist. We're going to have a discussion about thi...more

Monday dribble: Gender busting, rankings, and streaking
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted November 23, 2010 at 10:33am

Positive strides for gender empowerment were made last week. Well, "positive" if you share a similar liberal view. Others watching Kye Allums help his women's basketball team win, legend Nancy Lieberman coach men, or Daisy Lane officiate an NBA D-League g...more

For The Love Of The Game
by The First Line
posted November 21, 2010 at 10:57am

Now here’s a paragraph that would never appear in Sports Illustrated: [Toronto Head Coach Patrick Rankine] also blames a poorly attended team practice on Wednesday for the lack of cohesion. “It was a low turnout because a lot of players had conflic...more

Girls Sports – A Call For Strategic Participation And Action
by Game On! Sports Camp 4 Girls
posted November 20, 2010 at 10:14am

There seems to have been a recent slew of Title IX cases filed recently charging that school districts are not living up to their legal obligations to assure equality in sports opportunities for boys and girls. If these charges are found to have merit, it...more

National Women’s Law Center launches new campaign
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 18, 2010 at 11:05pm

Earlier this week, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) launched a new campaign to address Title IX violations and inequalities in girls’ high school sport. The campaign, “Rally for Girls’ Sports: She’ll Win More Than a Game“, also includes ...more

Why must it be the LADY Bears?
by After Atalanta
posted November 18, 2010 at 11:40am

Perhaps not upsetting news to some of you. But seriously, sitting in the XL Center last night*, I cringed every time I heard the announcer boldly exclaim Lady Bears. Lady Bears? Sounds like a bad children's book. And yet I rooted for them. Well I clapped ...more

How do we talk about her...um, him....or is it her?
by After Atalanta
posted November 15, 2010 at 8:52pm

I guess I should be okay with the fact that the worst (that we've heard of) that has happened to George Washington's Kye Allums after his announcement of his gender change is that the media doesn't quite know how to talk about him.Nevertheless, confusion ...more

The Godliness of Pink and Blue
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted November 15, 2010 at 6:48pm

Randi Foster is a 12 year old middle school student in Mississippi. After a meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Students in the school, several of her Christian classmates attacked her. They verbally abused her, kicked her, hit her and threw her into a...more

Lindsey Van: "I get mad because a little girl like you couldn't go out and ski jump with the boys"
by anngaff
posted November 15, 2010 at 5:27pm

The scene: Bill Kerig, director of Ready to Fly, sits down to interview World Ski Jumping Champion Lindsey Van in order to promote fundraising for the documentary he is producing. His young daughter Grace comes in and asks what they're doing. Grace: "Can...more

Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show #5 - Talking Transgender Student Athletes with Pat Griffin
by mhueter
posted November 14, 2010 at 2:47pm

This week, we'll be talking with Dr. Pat Griffin, former director of It Takes a Team! education campaign for LGBT issues in sport at the Women's Sports Foundation. On October 4, 2010, Dr. Griffin released a groundbreaking report titled On The Team: Equal ...more

Court Applies Title IX Standards to Harassment of Student With HIV
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2010 at 1:06pm

A recent decision from an Indiana federal district court applied Title IX's standard for institutional liability for peer harassment to a cause involving students' harassment of a fellow student who is HIV positive. Parents of P.R., a middle school stude...more

2 Important Firsts in Sport for Marginalized Groups
by One Sport Voice
posted November 13, 2010 at 12:03pm

1. Afghanistan is poised to get their first national women’s team. The sport will be cricket and the Afghanistan Cricket Board feels cricket will allow the women to play a sport but remain consistent with Islamic tradition and values. To read more about...more

Title IX violations to be remedied in Arrowhead, Wisconsin
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2010 at 1:05am

A recent investigation into Title IX violations at Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin lead OCR to conclude, for the second time in recent years, that the school was not providing equal opportunity to female athletes. The school has agreed to fund alpine ...more

How a Gawker video instigated embarrassment among female athletes
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted November 12, 2010 at 9:12am

A video was flying around the Internet this morning, and I debated all day whether or not I wanted to write about it. I chose to move forward because it’s a topic that needs to be discussed....more

12 new Title IX lawsuits filed today: What does it mean?
by Fair Game News
posted November 11, 2010 at 1:23pm

By Laura Pappano The National Women’s Law Center filed complaints today against 12 school districts (see press release here) that are meant to be a sampling – not an exhaustive expose of who’s ignoring Title IX. The suit is a reminder that, althou...more

National Women's Law Center Files 12 Complaints Challenging Sex Discrimination in HS Athletics
by Title IX Blog
posted November 11, 2010 at 10:25am

The National Women's Law Center announced today that it has filed administrative complaints against twelve school districts across the country to challenge sex discrimination in high school athletics. These districts are, according to NWLC President Marc...more

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