Good news -- The publisher Wisdom House has licensed the rights to publish a translation of 37 Words in Korea! I'm surprised, I'll admit. I figured that my history of Title IX and the struggle against sex discrimination in U.S…
The self-designated "protectors" of women's sports who loudly oppose allowing a few transgender girls and women to compete remain oddly silent about practices that unfairly give hundreds of women's playing slots to cisgender men year after year after year. An…
A little-noticed legal ruling this week could be a big deal for Title IX lawsuits going forward. If I'm reading this right, colleges and universities could be held accountable not only for cases in which they were deliberately indifferent to…
Readers of my book 37 Words know that its story arcs follow the history of Title IX activism. If you're anywhere near New York City between now and September 4, you can see a more visual representation of this in…
Child sex trafficking isn't the first thing most people think of when they consider sexual harassment and assault in higher education. But it's more common than you may think. And perpetrators are almost all white, male academics, according to a…
You don't need to be Agatha Christie to wonder why Title IX is a mystery to most people. Congress passed this civil rights law a half-century ago. Activists demanding an education free of sex discrimination have generated headlines for 50…
The New Press published 37 Words this week, and early copies have been arriving for the past week to those who pre-ordered the book. It's in the top 100 books by sales in three categories on Amazon: federal education legislation;…
Seven years ago I decided to write a book about something that inspires me, which became 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination. At the time, I wasn't sure how to do it, or even if…
With the March Madness basketball tournaments in full swing, I can't resist revisiting a fine article in the Washington Post about the NCAA's dead sibling, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). This "Made by History" article is full…
Once again the federal Education Department is stepping in to do something that all colleges should have done but many haven't -- surveys about sexual violence on campus. Hooray for the feds. Under a provision tucked into a 3,000-page Congressional…