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Pepperdine Women
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U niversity president Andrew Benton is working to save the Pepperdine womens swimming program. Didnt know about that one? Catch up here . M E M O R A N D U M TO: Friends and Supporters of the Pepperdine Women’s Swimming and Diving Team FROM : Andrew K. Benton RE: Response to Offers of Support/Immediate ...1 day ago -
Blinders
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R adical Title IX advocate Robert "Is it any wonder Im null and void?" Landau has made a name for himself while exposing - yes, we do know they exist - inequities. Read more here . When he goes this far, its obvious that his "work" in Philly is done: Landau’s complaint against Haverford High School — ...1 day ago -
What ESPN Left on the Cutting Room Floor
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by Lara S. Kaufmann , Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center If you watched ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” yesterday, you know it included a segment on a client of ours, a 17-year old high school senior in Fort Worth, Texas. In case you missed it, here it is: Watch the Video Our client is a top ...1 week ago -
Advocating for Girls’ Sports With a Sharp Tongue
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Robert H. Landau and his daughter Karen Bleznak. His activism began in 1989 with her in high school.1 week ago -
Advocating for Girls’ Sports With a Sharp Tongue
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Robert H. Landau and his daughter Karen Bleznak. His activism began in 1989 with her in high school.1 week ago -
Go Phyllis!
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O ur friend Phyllis Schlafly starts her latest report with this: The feminists are going through one of their periodic soul-searching psychological examinations of what the womens liberation movement did or did not do for them, and why they are not happy with the result. Read more here . Womens percentage in ...1 week ago -
Is Cheerleading A Sport? [Bring It On]
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As colleges skew more female, theyre looking for ways to comply with Title IX without eliminating mens sports. One solution: classify cheerleading as a sport . But is this bad for female athletes? According to NPRs Frank Deford , Title IX mandates that representation on sports teams be proportional to ...1 week ago -
Football Subtract
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Y ou may have already heard that Northeastern is dropping football. If not, read more here . We all know the quota police wont be interested in this case, since it will likely involve a shortage of male athletes. Im not all that comfortable using the roster numbers on the Northeastern site (since they ...2 weeks ago -
Reading: Millenial Makeover
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Image credit: smallpresschat.com This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. It’s also a class requirement for a course I’m taking at John’s Hopkins University. This week’s reading is called Millenial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the ...2 weeks ago -
Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
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By Laurie Lisle Wesleyan University Press Few phrases in the English language conjure up more vivid fantasies than the words all-girl school . The education of women—especially in an all-girl environment—is highly political. The ACLU has made the argument that single-sex education has not proven to be ...2 weeks ago -
Levi Johnston Or Not, Who Needs Playgirl?
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Today was an unfortunate day. While perusing the internet, I ran across a teaser of Levi Johnston’s Playgirl magazine photo shoot. My curiosity got the best of me, and to say it killed the cat is an understatement. I think “made the cat look at a whole lot of nasty testicles…and then killed it” is more ...2 weeks ago -
Weekly Round-Up
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by Katherine Beauchemin, Communication Intern, National Womens Law Center The American Prospect took a look at Title IX through the eyes of a father as he witnessed the positive impact of Little League baseball on his daughter. According to a Washington Post report , a panel of independent experts concluded, ...3 weeks ago -
NWLC Files Comments with Georgia Department of Education
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by Kolbe Franklin , Program Associate, National Women’s Law Center On September 30, the Center filed comments with the Georgia Department of Education regarding the state’s proposed new rule on homebound instruction services. Specifically, the Center recommended a number of changes that Georgia can make ...3 weeks ago -
KU Title IX Complaint
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Y es, that pendulum is swinging the other way, folks. Proportionality proponents (try saying that ten times fast) have damaged sports like mens swimming and wrestling by forcing their quota system on schools. Kansas now has too many women athletes. Will proportionality be used to eliminate womens programs? Will ...3 weeks ago -
Gotta Love the Double Standard
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F ewer males are going to college these days. Undergraduate women outnumber men. No arguing that, is there? Reminder: Proportionality became a dirty word in college athletics. It meant cuts in funding, roster caps, and dropped programs for mens athletics. Since interest in college athletics is higher among ...3 weeks ago -
Title IX Backlash
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T he Title IX reformers are gaining ground. We need to continue to speak out on the damage Title IX quotas are doing to mens athletics. Quotas arent working. People are waking up to that fact. Listen to this short interview with the former head of the Ivy League : Jeffrey H. Orleans: Making College ...3 weeks ago -
New Fact Sheet Addresses Schools Gender Equity Obligations During the Economic Downturn
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by Kolbe Franklin , Program Associate, National Women’s Law Center NWLC has a new fact sheet, Title IX Still Applies: Gender Equity in Athletics during Difficult Economic Times , which reminds schools that despite the economic crisis, they must not forget their obligations under Title IX to ensure equal ...3 weeks ago -
A Waste of $63,000
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People call baseball America’s pastime, but it is a sport that numerous high schools nationwide treat more favorably than its female counterpart, softball.Over the last several years, numerous students and their parents have brought lawsuits against school districts for providing inferior equipment, facilities, and ...3 weeks ago -
Mark Schmitt: Progressive Thoughts on Title IX
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Mark Schmitt is going to be at Progressivism on Tap tonight at Busboys and Poets, a happy hour here in Washington, D.C., where a smart progressive sits and talks about some interesting stuff. But Schmitt (who now edits a publication where I used to work) also wrote a really adorable column about how his daughter, ...4 weeks ago -
To Be A Title IX Dad
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In The American Prospect , Matt Schmitt offers a love letter to Title IX --and the social transformation it ignited, far beyond what was originally envisioned. Schmitts eight-year-old daughter (who reminds me of a young Carly Welch ) catches on a Little League baseball team; shes the only girl on the team, she was ...4 weeks ago
