Bernice Sandler, January 2015 (Photo copyright Sherry Boschert) Bernice Sandler didn't know what to say when Rosa Parks sat down next to her. It was one of the few times in her life when Sandler found herself tongue-tied. She was…
A professional association of Title IX administrators recently proclaimed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Meanwhile, a federal lawsuit in Minnesota claims that protecting transgender students' rights amounts to discrimination against girls under Title IX. The intersections between discrimination…
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…
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…
Whatever you think of the outcome of the lawsuit by Ellen Pao claiming sex discrimination at the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, a tactic used by the company's defense team could make one cringe -- character assassination. (Video: Bernice…
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…
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…