You are here: SportsPLUS : Discrimination/Title IX
DISCRIMINATION/TITLE IX Articles and Blog Posts
|
Sexual harassment litigation roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted July 15, 2010 at 5:08pm
Here is a roundup of news related to Title IX cases involving sexual harassment and assault:
A former student at Arizona State has sued the Board of Regents claiming that the university failed to adequately protect her from a rape that occurred at a frat...more
|
|
Sure it'd be nice to keep all the sports...
by Title IX Blog
posted July 13, 2010 at 8:10pm
In a recent hearing in California, a state senator strongly questioned the folks at UC Davis over their recent decision to cut four intercollegiate athletic teams. Senator Dean Florez, who serves on the senate's Select Committee on Gender Discrimination a...more
|
|
Diablo Valley College to reinstate teams
by Title IX Blog
posted July 8, 2010 at 4:11pm
Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, California) will reinstate the men's and women's cross country, track and tennis teams cut four months ago, in settlement of a threatened investigation and review by the Office of Civil Rights. The two-year college, ...more
|
|
Coaches' Title IX Literacy Called Into Question
by Title IX Blog
posted July 2, 2010 at 3:51pm
Coaches are sorely lacking foundational knowledge about Title IX, according to new, unpublished research profiled in this article in Athletic Business. The study's authors, Ellen Staurowsky of Ithaca College and Erianne Weight of Bowling Green, found tha...more
|
|
Indiana scheduling case on the docket
by Title IX Blog
posted June 29, 2010 at 8:22pm
The case being brought by Amber Parker on behalf of her daughter against the Indiana High School Athletic Association and Franklin High School (where Parker is also the girls' basketball coach) is headed to summary judgment.At issue in the case is the lon...more
|
|
Why it's time to get beyond patriarchy
by After Atalanta
posted June 28, 2010 at 7:16pm
This post is inspired by the 38th anniversary of Title IX which occurred last week. Actually it's "inspired" by this column by a sportswriter, blogger, and basketball fan. Wendy Parker believes it's time to get beyond Title IX. Me, too. But not in the way...more
|
|
|
What Title IX means to them...
by Kaci Kust
posted June 28, 2010 at 6:40pm
If you were paying any attention to sports last week, you know last Wednesday was the 38th anniversary of Title IX. So during the week I decided to talk with some female athletes and other women in sports that I've come in contact with to hear about what ...more
|
|
Cuts to men's teams and the shark attack phenomenon
by Title IX Blog
posted June 28, 2010 at 5:39pm
This article about the Quinnipiac trial contained the following quote from the coach of the former men's track team, which was cut along with volleyball:
The unfortunate reality of Title IX in this day and age is that university’s choose to eliminate m...more
|
|
PPI Women of Power Hour Interview (Podcast)
by anngaff
posted June 28, 2010 at 5:31pm
I did a Blog Talk Radio interview with Fey Ugokwe, Esq. of Pink Purse International today. Fey's show "The PPI Women of Power Hours" is dedicated to the "career, personal and business interests of all women."
A big thank-you to Fey for featuring me in on...more
|
|
Perspectives in QU/cheerleading
by Title IX Blog
posted June 26, 2010 at 12:23pm
Nothing major to report. I haven't seen any coverage of the closing arguments yet but if something of note occurs, we'll post about it.In reading some of the coverage that stemmed largely from Jeff Webb's testimony Tuesday about the legitimacy of cheerlea...more
|
|
Title IX Is good for Stanford
by Title IX Blog
posted June 25, 2010 at 4:21pm
In honor of Title IX's anniversary, here is a great article crediting Title IX for strengthening Stanford University athletics. After the law passed, some in the athletic department were resistant to expanding opportunities for women, but many of them ...more
|
|
Title IX Anniversary: STEM Improvements Still Needed
by Womenstake
posted June 24, 2010 at 4:05pm
by Natalie Koski-Karell, Intern,National Women’s Law Center
Title IX applies to all types of educational programs and activities and requires all schools that receive federal funding to provide equal opportunities to male and female students, including...more
|
|
Mythbusting in honor of Title IX's Anniversary
by Title IX Blog
posted June 24, 2010 at 1:04pm
Sadly, it seems that every year, folks use Title IX's anniversary to trot out tired old arguments that it's time to "get beyond" Title IX. Because these people obviously don't read this blog, or they wouldn't be so misinformed, it seems like an act of fu...more
|
|
On its anniversary, a Title IX debate
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 24, 2010 at 12:50pm
It started this morning when Wendy Parker of Blue Star Basketball stated that we should all be beyond Title IX:But there’s another side to its legacy that threatens to tarnish the positive effects and cloud the challenges facing a more globalized women�...more
|
|
#WIN Women make Hockey Hall of Fame
by One Sport Voice
posted June 23, 2010 at 7:14pm
Hockey players Angela James and Cammi Granato have been voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Let’s also not forget that Angela Ruggiero earned her place in the Hockey Hall of Fame as the first brother-sister duo to play pro hockey together.
In most of ...more
|
|
The cheerleading as a sport debate continues
by Sports Girls Play
posted June 23, 2010 at 5:36pm
Cheerleading – and what it has evolved into – is on trial right now in a Connecticut courtroom. The debate revloves around a law suit brought on by the volleyball team at Quinnipiac University over the school’s decision to cut their team violated T...more
|
|
|
Title IX: 38 Years Later
by Womenstake
posted June 23, 2010 at 4:54pm
by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...more
|
|
A Title IX success story
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 23, 2010 at 4:41pm
Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally-funded education programs, and athletics programs signally, was enacted 38 years ago today. Never without its naysayers, Title IX has despite them been an unmitigated success. Though not the fi...more
|
|
Title IX: Celebrating opportunity for all
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 23, 2010 at 3:44pm
It was a particularly lackluster practice and in typical fashion our basketball coach threw a bit of a fit. He went on a verbal rampage trying desperately to explain to this group of high school girls the possibilities that existed for them in sport.
He ...more
|
|
QU trial: Lopiano testifies
by Title IX Blog
posted June 23, 2010 at 1:13pm
So the Title IX Blog did indeed take a field trip to Connecticut yesterday to watch some of the Quinnipiac University trial. Erin will be posting about what we saw (because she took notes and I just sat there amazed at some of the things people say and th...more
|
|
Why it’s time to get beyond Title IX
by Blue Star Basketball
posted June 23, 2010 at 12:56pm
There isn’t a young girl or grown woman in America who’s taken up playing basketball — or any other sport — and who hasn’t received a constant reminder of the hard-won privilege she enjoys to be able to play the game she loves.
The activists wh...more
|
|
What is Title IX?
by Kaci Kust
posted June 22, 2010 at 10:03pm
It seems pretty simple. Girls should have the same opportunity to play sports as boys.
But that's not all there is to Title IX. The first thing to know (that I'll admit I didn't really realize before) is that in the 37 words that make up the federal law ...more
|
Jump to page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
