During Women's History Month and March Madness 2024, NCAA sexism clouds the all-time record-breaking greatness we're witnessing in intercollegiate basketball. It's a pity. The NCAA's actions distract from the achievements of University of Iowa basketball great Caitlin Clark, who this…
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…
Advocating political and cultural change engenders backlash. Student survivors of sexual assault successfully pushed many educational institutions to do their Title IX duties in the last decade despite ongoing, painful pushback. They worry for the student survivors of gun violence…
One of the byproducts of immersing myself into researching Title IX is an altered personal tolerance for sex discrimination. More and more, I don't. Tolerate it, that is. And that means letting go of some formerly cherished cultural reference points…
Pop quiz: Who said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Go ahead, google it. You'll find lots of sources all over the Web and social media agreeing that the quote came from poet and writer Maya…
I saw ghosts in October. I could sense that female athletes were out there being sportsy and all, but in my local newspaper mostly they were invisible. I decided, on an irritated whim, to monitor the San Francisco Chronicle's coverage…