A recent Supreme Court ruling clashed with existing laws, producing a Title IX showdown on abortion of sorts in schools, colleges, and universities. The U.S. Department of Education reminded educational institutions that Title IX protects students, faculty, and staff against…
Rather than read the case files of recent Title IX lawsuits, you can easily get the picture through this short video of athletes describing how they see differences in their schools' treatment of girls' and boys' sports. In this case,…
Requests for book censorship are a bigger problem than ever before, the American Library Association announced as part of Banned Books Week, September 18-24, 2022. In 2021, 729 requests tried to ban 1,597 books. So far in 2022, 681 attempts…
People and organizations submitted a record number of comments on Title IX regulations proposed by the Biden Administration. The Department of Education will review 240,085 comments received by the September 12 deadline before taking its next steps to revise Title…
Fifty years of failure to stop sex discrimination in school athletics means that it's time for Congress to help enforce Title IX in sports, an influential think tank proposed. If schools with athletics programs want federal funding (which nearly all…
Women's Equality Day on August 26 includes the struggle for equity in education, which handily illustrates how movements for various aspects of women's rights are never really separate from each other. On that date in 1920, U.S. women won the…
Students lack familiarity with Title IX not just because they aren't taught about it but because schools' written Title IX policies aren't understandable, a new study suggests. The bureaucratic, technical wording in those policies wasn't written for them. Researchers asked…
Title IX controversies historically draw the most attention if they come from elite coastal universities or Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, but sex discrimination matters just as much to schools in the so-called "flyover states." In the 1970s women faculty…
It's summer and Title IX news is slower, yet one of the most important events in Title IX history is happening right now. And you can play a part. For only the second time, the federal government is going through…
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…