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…
Revisions to Title IX's regulations that are expected to be proposed by the White House in April will affirm explicitly for the first time that Title IX's protections cover queer and transgender people. The regulations' prohibition of sex discrimination in…
Readers are sending 37 Words to: U.S. Capitol dome (Wikimedia Commons) Congress -- House of Representatives: California: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jackie Speier District of Columbia: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Minnesota: Rep. Ilhan Omar New York: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rhode…
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…
Regulations imposed by former President Donald Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos worsened an already high level of burnout among Title IX coordinators in schools, districts, and higher education. (By CIPHR Connect / Wikimedia Commons) One of the 2020…
https://youtu.be/_Ivuyj4WyLE There's a double standard in college sports that treats coaches differently depending on whether they discriminated under Title IX or were the ones discriminated against -- men get rehired, and women get rejected for other top coaching jobs. But…
Joseph I. Castro, 2013 (Wikimedia Commons) Years before California State Universities Chancellor Joseph I. Castro resigned following allegations of mishandling sexual misconduct complaints while president of Fresno State, there was another Title IX situation in which he seemingly chose to…
Big names in academia gave shameful public lessons recently on what institutional betrayal looks like. At Harvard University, 38 faculty members signed an open letter challenging the university’s decision to bar anthropologist John Comaroff from teaching or taking on new…