History turns a page this week when Hillary Clinton becomes the first female candidate for U.S. President to be nominated by a major political party. In the spirit of this blog's weaving of historical and contemporary threads, you might enjoy…
Terry Saario in the 1970s Saario today. (Photos courtesy of Terry Saario) A good idea doesn't go very far, very fast without financing. In the early years of Title IX, key funds came through a new cohort of women hired or…
Republican and Democratic Administrations have different track records for Office of Civil Rights enforcement of Title IX. (The OCR is part of the Executive Branch.) Three videos in this blog -- with former OCR officials Martin Gerry, Cindy Brown, and…
I loved being the quarterback. I had a strong passing arm, a good eye for quickly reading the players on the field, and fast legs to sprint when I had to. My college football team didn’t play on the stadium…
[Videos feature Judy Norrell, former lobbyist for the League of Women Voters, and Barbara Dixon, former staff person for Sen. Birch Bayh.] Title IX wasn't just an act of Congress, nor did it come simply from the demands of women's…
"It's just ordinary us." That's how Holly Knox describes people who change the world. You don't need to be special, she said. Most world-changers aren't. She's one of the "ordinary" people who followed an opportunity to make a difference, and…
(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…
Like many of today's undergraduates who have spoken up about sexual assaults and harassment on college campuses, a sense of outrage drove Pamela Price to complain to Yale University officials after a male faculty member offered her an A grade in exchange for…
VIDEO: Francelia Gleaves (now McKindra) not only was one of the first people to work at length on Title IX issues in the 1970s, she was one of the few African Americans doing this work. To her, minority rights and women's…