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…
Women got Ford to fund Title IX
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…
Office for Civil Rights helped, hindered Title IX
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…
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…
National Lawyers Guild honors Title IX shero
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…
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…
Hunting Ground documentary in crosshairs of history
The San Francisco Chronicle published my op-ed article about women finding their voices to speak out against sexual assault and harassment on campuses. It's online now; look for it in print on Thursday, Nov. 19. This Sunday, Nov. 22, CNN…
Fomenting a feminist utopia can be fun
It's one thing to change the course of history. It's even rarer to know that's what you're doing, and perhaps rarer still to have fun doing it. While researching the people behind Title IX from its inception to today, I've vicariously…
Lack of Title IX in K-12 schools add to college rape crisis?
A third of 96 school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area that responded to requests for public information did not identify a Title IX coordinator in their district -- something they are required to have by law. That law -- Title…
My Title IX reading list (or what I did this summer)
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…