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Title IX Blog

News, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.
By Erin Buzuvis, Sudha Setty, and Kristine Newhall

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Last Entry: July 16, 2010 at 08:42:00

Title IX Sex Abuse Trial Underway in Texas

Posted on May 05, 2008
A Title IX trial commenced today in the federal district court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff is a former student at Bowie High School in Austin. He is suing the high school, the Austin School District, and a former color guard instructor named James Johnston, alleging that during the 2003-04 school year, Johnston made "made offensive physical contact" with him at the school and other locations, and that school district officials failed to protect him from this risk of which they should have been aware...

Conference in India: Save the Girl Child

Posted on May 03, 2008
Last week, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare convened a national conference to "Save the Girl Child." Among the topics addressed at the conference were equal educational opportunities for girls and boys, promoting the physical and mental health of girls, and curbing the practice of sex-selective abortion (which is illegal in India, but practiced by some in order to abort female fetuses)...

Female Wrestlers' Discrimination Claim Dismissed for Lack of Notice

Posted on May 02, 2008
Now that last week's decision in the U.C. Davis wrestling case is available online, I can offer the fuller analysis I promised.The background, briefly, is this: In 2000, U.C. Davis decided that women would no longer be eligible to participate on the wrestling team...

Alhambra High School Softball Team Celebrates New Field

Posted on May 01, 2008
Four years ago, softball players at Alhambra (California) High School sued the Alhambra School District, challenging the disparity between their crappy softball field and the boys' new $900,000 baseball complex as a violation Title IX. After two years of litigation, the District settled, agreeing to construct a two new softball fields with "the same amenities and maintenance as the baseball fields" available to the boys...

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New Study: Co-Ed Classrooms Benefit All Students

Posted on April 30, 2008
A new study conducted by Prof. Analia Schlosser at Tel Aviv University concludes that co-ed classrooms benefit both girls and boys by improving the classroom environment and the academic achievement of students.Schlosser, an economist from the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, found that "both boys and girls do better when there are more girls in the class...

Male coaches feel "discrimination"

Posted on April 29, 2008
Women's Hoops Blog links to this article about the larger implications of the search for a head women's basketball coach at University of South Carolina. The writer turns it into a battle of the sexes--a battle that men are allegedly losing because they comprise less than 50 percent of the head coaches of women's intercollegiate basketball teams and because there seems to be a trend toward hiring women for head coaching positions over more allegedly experienced male coaches...

West Virginia Parents Sue for Gender Equity

Posted on April 28, 2008
Parents in Mercer County, West Virginia have filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Board of Education, alleging that inferior athletic opportunities for female students at Princeton Senior High School violate Title IX. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports that the complaint cites discrimination in the distribution of equipment and facilities like pitching machines and batting cages, uniforms, travel, access to coaching staff, and "other specific complaints...

Coach Jackson Fights On

Posted on April 27, 2008
After the Supreme Court confirmed in 2004 that Title IX prohibits retaliation against a coach who advocates for gender equity on behalf of his team, the defendant in that case, the Birmingham Board of Education, eventually settled with the plaintiff, former girls basketball coach Roderick Jackson...

Different fight for season change

Posted on April 26, 2008
In Nevada, a father of a high school soccer player has filed a suit attempting to prevent the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association from moving girls' soccer from the winter to the fall. Only the southern half of the state has girls' soccer in this non-traditional season and the NIAA has wanted to change this for some time now in order to create a state championship in which all schools can compete...

UC Davis Wrestling Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted on April 25, 2008
Until I can find a copy of the decision to read, UC Davis's press release is going to have to do...A federal judge has ruled in favor of the University of California, Davis, in a Title IX case filed by four women who wanted to be on the intercollegiate wrestling team...

NYC Schools Contemplate Fall Season for Girls' Soccer

Posted on April 23, 2008
In New York City's Public School Athletic League, girls' soccer is a spring sport. But parents, coaches, and gender equity advocates are urging the League to move the sport to the fall, the season it is played in the rest of the state. They have already complained to the Office for Civil Rights, and according to this article, a lawsuit may be looming...

Degrees of separation: Title IX and Lorena Ochoa

Posted on April 22, 2008
Lorena Ochoa is hot, hot, hot right now just having won her fourth LPGA title in as many attempts.But is she is product of Title IX? ESPN commentator Cindy Brunson believes so, or at least lead us to believe so when she compared Ochoa's post-Title IX accomplishments to Mickey Wright's record-setting four straight record that Ochoa tied this past weekend...

Danica Patrick Wins Indy Japan 300

Posted on April 21, 2008
Danica Patrick, a race car driver in a field overwhelmingly dominated by men, won the Indy Japan 300 on Sunday, becoming the first woman to ever win an Indy car race. The NY Times reports that Patrick had been a popular figure on the racing scene since she placed fourth at the Indy 500 in 2005, but that this victory had put to rest doubts that she could actually win a major race...

Another Lawsuit Filed Against FGCU

Posted on April 18, 2008
Florida Gulf Coast University is getting used to federal court. Yesterday it was named in yet another sex discrimination lawsuit, this one brought by former general counsel Wendy Morris, who was terminated last July.Morris's complaint alleges that she was retaliated against by the former interim president, Richard Pegnetter for urging the University to take seriously the charges of sex discrimination raised by emerita Athletic Director Merrily Dean Baker...

We Support Fair Pay

Posted on April 18, 2008
Today, our friends at National Women's Law Center are asking bloggers to help raise awareness about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which is currently pending in the Senate and is possibly up for a vote in the near future.As the AAUW recently reported, women still only earn 69 to 80 cents on the dollar for comparable work as men...

Horseplay or Sexual Harassment?

Posted on April 17, 2008
Under Title IX, schools must take reasonable steps to students from sexual harassment by other students. When applying this standard, courts are sometimes called upon to distinguish sexual harassment from other form of bullying, teasing, roughhousing, or horseplay that aren't motivated by the sex or gender characteristics of the victim...

URI makes cuts

Posted on April 16, 2008
As anticipated, the University of Rhode Island has been forced to cut teams to compensate for a large university-wide budget deficit. In addition to women's gymnastics which had already been told this would its last season, the university's athletic department has said it will also be eliminating women's field hockey, men's tennis, and men's swimming and diving...

ASU case under radar

Posted on April 15, 2008
Not too long ago we came across this post at the Huffington Post about a Title IX case at Arizona State University that we had never heard of despite its not-so-pleasant similarities to the case at University of Colorado. Ariela Migdal, in a piece about sexual assault and the campus climate, briefly mentions a case brought by a now former ASU student against the university but provides no details...

Pittsburgh Teachers Win $1.2 Million in Pay Discrimination Case

Posted on April 14, 2008
Last week a federal jury awarded $1.2 million to 12 female teachers who had sued their employer, the Elizabeth Forward School District, for discriminating against them on the basis of sex and age. The jury agreed that the plaintiffs were hired at the lowest pay grade even though they had experience from other school districts, resulting in a salary discrepancy between the plaintiffs and other comparably experienced teachers who were younger and/or male...

Confusion in Bucks County

Posted on April 12, 2008
The Superintendent of the Central Bucks County School District doesn't quite understand what exactly OCR is seeking in its investigation of the district's athletic departments*.An anonymous complaint was filed and OCR is collecting information. A representative will be meeting with the superintendent next week in an effort to resolve the complaint which centers on publicity, equipment, and scheduling...

FGCU Softball Coach Quickly Reinstated

Posted on April 11, 2008
We posted earlier this week about Florida Gulf Coast University's decision on Monday to suspend softball coach Dave Deiros after his player, Roz Tyre, complained that he grabbed her and yelled at her in a threatening manner. On Wednesday, it was announced that Deiros had been reinstated, despite the Athletic Director's acknowledgment that "placing your hand on a student-athlete?s chest protector is not acceptable behavior...

New CEO for WSF

Posted on April 10, 2008
The Women's Sports Foundation has named a new CEO. Karen Durkin who has been with the NHL most recently and the LPGA prior to that will take over the position from Donna Lopiano who resigned last summer.

Correcting the misinformation

Posted on April 10, 2008
It seems to be my purpose in life, or at least on this blog, to find all the bits of misinformation perpetuated by sport writers about Title IX, become quite irate and then correct them on this blog and often in a letter to the writer and/or editor.Sometimes they seem very little especially when the intent clearly is not malicious (though there are plenty of those cases too)...

ACLU Wants Greene County Segregation Plan

Posted on April 09, 2008
The ACLU is invoking a state open records law to request a copy of the plan to segregate schools by sex that Greene County, Georgia, abandoned last month. Because the county indicated that it would go forward with this or a similar plan in the future, the organization is concerned that the county is relying on stereotypes and "questionable 'brain science' theories that suggest that boys and girls should be treated radically differently...

More trouble at FGCU

Posted on April 08, 2008
Yesterday, Florida Gulf Coast University reportedly suspended Dave Deiros, head softball coach, after a player charged him with assaulting her at Saturday's practice. The player, catcher Roz Tyre, filed a complaint with the campus police claiming that Deiros twice grabbed her chest protector and shook her...

URI considering cuts

Posted on April 07, 2008
The University of Rhode Island decided recently to cut women's gymnastics citing the decrease in the the sport's popularity in the region. At that time it promised to add women's lacrosse in 2009. But recent budget issues (every university department is being required to scale back)have made that addition nearly impossible and it seems like cutting other sports is under serious consideration...

Retaliation Case Against Clark College May Proceed to Trial

Posted on April 05, 2008
Last week, the Washington state court of appeals reversed a lower court decision that had granted a summary judgment victory to Clark College (Vancouver, WA) in its litigation with former women's basketball coach, Trev Kiser. In 2002, Clark College terminated Kiser's contract...

Student Letter Defends Title IX

Posted on April 04, 2008
As Title IX fans, we admire people who challenge the ignorant and sexist rhetoric that is often used to demonize the law and women's equality in athletics. As professors, we love it even more when the people mounting that challenge are students. So we give a Title IX Blog tip o' the hat to Notre Dame sophomore John Witty (who, a google search reveals, hails from Iowa, one of our favorite states) for penning the following letter to his student paper...

Checking in with Billie Jean

Posted on April 04, 2008
Cokie Roberts has an interview with Billie Jean King in this weekend's USA Weekend magazine. They talk about the state of women's sports, Hillary Clinton, history and the future. Remember, the Sports Museum of America opens next month in Manhattan. One wing is dedicated to housing the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center...

The not so implausible joke

Posted on April 03, 2008
April Fool's Day came and went here at the Title IX blog. At least I thought it had until I started reading this article in the University of Buffalo student newspaper about officially changing the women's team nicknames to the Lady Bulls after years of just being the Bulls...

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