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,…
Title IX issues that start in colleges and universities inevitably make their way to K-12 schools, opening society's eyes to the pervasiveness of the problem at all ages. A year-long investigation by Associated Press reporters provides the latest example -- a…
Here's the thing about Title IX: Everybody I interview has a Title IX story. Some of the stories contradict each other. There are those that present clear pictures of the past, and others are a little blurry around the edges…
An aging federal building in Portland, Ore. that was rehabilitated to model modern environmental ethics honors a woman, coincidentally named Edith Green, who is best known for rehabbing federal laws to treat women ethically. Rep. Edith Louise Starrett Green (D-OR), a…
The media and anti-Title IX pundits are fond of framing controversies around campus sexual assaults as a relatively "new" phenomenon that started in 2011. Too often that leaves out the 45-year history of schools and colleges unfairly ignoring, obstinately defying, and only reluctantly complying…
Pamela Price entered Yale University in 1974 as a Black nationalist with an Angela Davis-style afro. She'd never heard of Title IX and wasn't attracted to any of the women's organizations on campus. She put her heart and energies into the…
The U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has at least another week to consider what it will ask Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos since it delayed her nomination hearing from Jan. 11th to next Wednesday, Jan. 18. My suggestion: Ask…
Pop quiz: Who said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Go ahead, google it. You'll find lots of sources all over the Web and social media agreeing that the quote came from poet and writer Maya…
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…
I saw ghosts in October. I could sense that female athletes were out there being sportsy and all, but in my local newspaper mostly they were invisible. I decided, on an irritated whim, to monitor the San Francisco Chronicle's coverage…