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Court Denies Quinnipiac's Motion to Lift Injunction
by Title IX Blog
posted March 7, 2013 at 9:12am

Over two years ago, a federal district court in Connecticut concluded that Quinnipiac University's decision to cut its women's volleyball team violated Title IX by leaving too few opportunities for women in its student body.  As a remedy, the court i...more

Student-athletes and privacy laws
by Sports, Media & Society
posted March 5, 2013 at 10:38pm

Most sports reporters likely will never be confused for seasoned lawyers, but a new research paper suggests journalists might have to become better acquainted with the law. Sada Reed, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, examined legal...more

Women's Canoe - Long Overdue: An In-Depth Analysis as to Why Women's Canoe Isn't In the Olympics
by WomenCANIntl
posted March 2, 2013 at 1:45pm

“There is no excuse for perpetuating the blatant sexism that persists at the Games.Not only do women compete in only 21 sports while men take part in 27, but the program of events in most sports has fewer events for women. At the Olympics women do k...more

The Power of One Sentence: Heterosexism in Coaches’ Biographies
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 1, 2013 at 8:10pm

If you peruse professional biographies for coaches, administrators and other staff on collegiate athletic department websites, you will notice a common characteristic of the vast majority: At the end of the description of each staff member’s profes...more

Resolution in Butte?
by Title IX Blog
posted February 27, 2013 at 9:44pm

The issue of inequitable facilities has been resolved according the Butte (Montana) school district and the Office of Civil Rights. The district has a provided OCR a report that states facilities are now equitable or close to it with efforts in progress o...more

Squash Star Takes on the Taliban: 'Chosen one' fights for a cause
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted February 27, 2013 at 8:16am

BY:JAMES MONTAGUEPakistani squash champion Maria Toor Pakay has been threatened by the Taliban for playing the sport she loves.STORY HIGHLIGHTS Maria Toor Pakay is Pakistan's No. 1 squash player despite difficult circumstances Pakay fled her native Wazi...more

New PBS Documentary Makers Chronicles the Fight for Womanhood
by Pretty Tough
posted February 26, 2013 at 7:59am

' Many of you who play sports, or work, or go to school, or are old enough to vote, may take women’s equality for granted. You may not feel like feminists because basic liberties that your grandmothers and mothers fought so hard to attain are now c...more

Appellate Court Reinstates Retaliation Case Against Hofstra
by Title IX Blog
posted February 25, 2013 at 8:35pm

This week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Lauren Summa's retaliation case against Hofstra University.  Initially filed in 2008, Summa's lawsuit arose out of sexual harassment she experienced as part of her job as the graduate student ...more

SI, swimsuits and the cause of women’s sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted February 20, 2013 at 7:56am

Tweet It’s mid-to-late February. The Super Bowl is over, conference play in college basketball is heating up, and pitchers and catchers have reported. Which means it’s time for the annual flogging of Sports Illustrated for its popular and hi...more

High School Coach's Retaliation Case Moves Forward
by Title IX Blog
posted February 19, 2013 at 6:28pm

Last week, a federal district court ruled in favor of Connie Morris, a high school coach in Bessemer, Alabama, in her retaliation and employment discrimination case against the Bessemer School District.  The court agreed that Morris had presented suf...more

From Russia, But Not With Love
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 18, 2013 at 8:15pm

Russia is sending a message to LGBT people, but it is definitely not a love note.  As much of the western world is moving toward greater acceptance and legal protections for LGBT people, Russia is moving in the opposite direction. National polls tel...more

VCU Adds Lacrosse
by Title IX Blog
posted February 17, 2013 at 10:50am

Virginia Commonwealth University will add a women's lacrosse team, in an effort to shore up its compliance with Title IX, according to this article in the Baltimore Sun.  The team will compete in the Atlantic 10 conference starting in the 2014-15 sea...more

Op-Ed Addresses Income, Sex Inequalities in Schools and Public Parks
by Title IX Blog
posted February 9, 2013 at 6:55pm

A great op-ed on Title IX appeared on Law.com this week to commemorate the 27th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day.  The author, Kim Turner, a fellow at the Fair Play for Girls in Sports Project, makes the case that despite Title IX, inequ...more

Court dismisses case challenging harassment, retaliation, and homophobia in the college athletics environment
by Title IX Blog
posted February 9, 2013 at 9:53am

A recent judicial opinion sheds light on the interrelationship of sexual harassment, retaliation and homophobia in the college sports environment, as well as the limits of law to address each.  The plaintiff in this case is a former student-athlet...more

Law Review Article Examines Boy's Refusual to Wrestle Girl
by Title IX Blog
posted February 7, 2013 at 10:45pm

Professor Deborah Brake has a new article forthcoming in the Nevada Law Journal, available for download here, called Wrestling with Gender: Constructing Masculinity by Refusing to Wrestle Women.  In it, Professor Brake examines the cultural significa...more

Amherst College issues sexual assault report
by Title IX Blog
posted February 7, 2013 at 9:21am

Amherst College issued its report last week on the institution's policies about sexual assault and its practices and procedures for dealing with reported assaults. As you might recall, the college gained national attention last fall when a former student ...more

En Garde: Muslim-American Woman Fencer Slashes Stereotypes
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted February 2, 2013 at 8:56am

Posted: February 1st, 2013 by the US Embassy in UKAuthor: ircU.S. Fencing’s Ibtihaj Muhammad demonstrates her fencing jacket at a school in East London On Monday 28 January, Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first Muslim woman to compete on behalf of the Unite...more

Women’s Review of Books is 30 (and more relevant than ever)
by Fair Game News
posted January 31, 2013 at 8:53pm

By Laura Pappano In the introduction to the 30th anniversary issue of The Women’s Review of Books, editor Amy Hoffman makes that point that — yes — this many  years later we still need a forum for thoughtful, intellectual, politica...more

Women in the Military: Challenging Assumptions About Women's Physicality
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 31, 2013 at 8:51pm

Photo from American Friends Service Committee.The recent announcement that women are now allowed to fight in combat for the United States military has opened a proverbial 'can of worms' with respect to the discussion of the place of women in society. &nbs...;more

True or False: Girls are Cheerleaders, Boys are Athletes
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 29, 2013 at 9:31am

Photo from Paper Blog.I was hanging out with some 10 year old children today watching the Team Canada men's Davis Cup team practice for their upcoming tie against Spain.  These children were brought by their school to play some tennis and maybe be in...more

Office of Civil Rights issues new guidelines to include students with disabilities in sports
by Sports, Media & Society
posted January 26, 2013 at 10:02am

The U.S. Department of Education declared today that schools must provide students with disabilities a fair opportunity to participate in athletic activities.  Although the Department of Education does not foresee immediate dramatic changes, the ne...more

HS Athletic Director Suspended Over Scheduling Dispute
by Title IX Blog
posted January 25, 2013 at 8:48am

The Boston Globe today reported that a high school athletic director in Lexington, Massachusetts, will serve a one-week suspension for falsifying an email to other athletic directors in the Middlesex League, claiming that a parent was threatening to sue t...more

USC Settles Title IX Complaint about Rowing Facilities
by Title IX Blog
posted January 25, 2013 at 7:56am

After a 14-year investigation, OCR has determined that the University of Southern California violated Title IX by providing inferior facilities to the women's rowing team, which produced a significant disparity in the overall treatment of men's and women'...more

Sexual Harassment Roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted January 22, 2013 at 5:42pm

Here is a roundup of some recent judicial decisions in Title IX sexual harassment cases:A federal court in New York dismissed a Title IX claim against the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District.  While in tenth grade, the plaintiff, had been receivi...more

Student Paper Raises Questions About UPenn's Title IX Compliance
by Title IX Blog
posted January 20, 2013 at 6:06pm

A recent article in the student newspaper for the University of Pennsylvania takes the university to task for having the highest disproportionality of athletic opportunities among all of the Ivy League schools.  Women at Penn constitute 51% of the st...more

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