(Video: Margot Polivy describes the struggles around women's athletics under Title IX in the 1970s.) The people who created Title IX really weren't thinking about athletics. No one saw the uproar coming. For the most part, Title IX's creators focused on…
A non-athlete played a profound role in opening up sports to millions of U.S. girls and women. In this video, she talks about what it took to begin writing the playbook for equality in athletics under Title IX. Margaret Dunkle…
It's one thing to change the course of history. It's even rarer to know that's what you're doing, and perhaps rarer still to have fun doing it. While researching the people behind Title IX from its inception to today, I've vicariously…
Current news articles and analyses provide helpful nuggets of background related to Title IX, such as a New York Times Magazine article on The Return of the Sex Wars. But to sample the bigger buffet of Title IX history from…
What do Title IX, the comedian Betsy Salkind, and the new film The Hunting Ground have in common? A historical thread that's about to change one sorry aspect of U.S. society. Finally. I hope. The Hunting Ground opens in cities across…
Often when we think of Title IX we think of how this law opened up opportunities for millions of girls to play sports and be athletes. The numbers tell a different story for women who want to be coaches. The…
"She's Beautiful When She's Angry" opens today in a San Francisco movie theater, and I can't wait to see it. The headline on San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle's review calls it "How women got started getting uppity," which…