Trump takes on women’s colleges
The Trump Administration's obsessions with controlling education and dismantling women's rights converged in an attack on Smith College.
Title IX critics huddle up for special treatment
When I read complaints that Title IX enforcement goes too far in dealing with sexual assault on campus, I think of football. Not because this topic is a political football being tossed around in the court of public opinion, though…
Nevertheless, she persisted
Part of the fun of researching Title IX history is seeing the chain of women's activism linking so many "foremother" feminists in politics with bad-ass female public servants of today, backed by the wider women's movement. Progress is never simple; they lobbied,…
Ten reasons to vote, for Title IX
Title IX itself isn't on the ballot Nov. 8, but it might as well be. The gains made for sexual and gender fairness through Title IX were created by politicians, courts, and activists, and can be undone by them, too…
Lobbyists, Congressional staff influenced Title IX
[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…
Women’s rights, minority rights inseparable
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…