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…
I'm wondering how the new "affirmative consent" standard adopted by California in 2015 and by an increasing number of colleges around the country is working out so far. It basically says that a college student must obtain consent from an awake, sober…
Eleven of the women most closely involved in the struggle to implement Title IX gathered on January 26, 2015 to give a living history of this most important legislation for U.S. women since the right to vote. Focusing mainly on…
Video: Bernice Sandler coaches Women's Studies students and faculty who are trying to improve policies at the California State University, Fresno, in November 2014. People all over the United States have links to Title IX. I'm enjoying seeing the fingers…
"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…
I'm heading home from an intensive two weeks in Washington, D.C. doing interviews and research for my book on the people behind Title IX, and I'm especially grateful to Margaret Dunkle for inviting me to a historic gathering of 11…
(Video: Title IX expert Bernice Sandler on why words matter.) We swim in a sea of cultural assumptions. Norms surround us like the air we breathe, scarcely noticeable until we find them toxic, and then hard to explain to someone…
Bernice Sandler wanted to be a professor. Patsy Takemoto Mink hoped to be a doctor. Meg Newman wanted to play baseball in high school. Emma Sulkowicz just wanted to feel safe on a college campus. Thirty-seven words make those dreams possible today…