Happy 40th Birthday, Title IX! Read All the Posts from NWLC’s Title IX Blog Carnival

Saturday is Title IX’s 40th birthday – but we want to give it an extra-long birthday weekend, so we’re kicking off the celebrations today with a blog carnival!
Today we’re sharing stories about how Title IX has helped women and girls in the classroom and on the field for the past 40 years, as well as looking forward to the work that remains to fulfill the promise of this great law. From STEM and sports stories to the protections the law provides to students who are bullied, harassed, and pregnant or parenting, we’re honoring it all!
After the jump you’ll find blog posts from NWLC staff and our wonderful participants. Have a blog you’d like to submit to the blog carnival? Leave a link in the comments section on this post or email it to djackson@nwlc.org.
Posts from the National Women’s Law Center
- On Title IX, Women, and STEM: How Far We've Come and How Far We Need to Go, Lizzy Watson
- Stepping Off the Field: How Title IX Shapes All of Education, Becka Wall
- My Title IX Story? It's Shared by Millions of American Women, Greer Donley
- Surviving Rape: What I Want Other College Students to Know About Title IX, Dana Bolger
- My Teenage Run-in with STEM Stereotypes, Alison Channon
- How Title IX Helped Define Me as a Young Woman, Carolyn Miller
- Girls Can Build Great Rockets: Why I Love Title IX and Hate Gender Stereotypes, Val Vilott
- Dear Department of Education and Yale University, thanks for the birthday present. Sincerely, Title IX, Devi Rao
- Happy Birthday, Title IX! Love, The Title IXers, Liz Watson and Samantha Lint
- When it Comes to Title IX, the Proof is in the Pudding, D’Laney Gielow
- Title IX: Because the World Needs More Female Scientists, Mira Nair
- Forever an Athlete, McKane Sharff
- The 10 States the Next U.S. Women’s Olympic Champion *Won’t* Come From, Melanie Ross Levin
Posts from our Participants
- Thank You, Title IX, Ashley Lauren, Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks
- Happy Birthday Title IX, Happy Birthday to You, Pat Campbell, Fairer Science
- The 40th Anniversary of Title IX, Lize, Training on Empty
- On Title IX’s 40th Birthday, Gender Gap Persists, Judy Molland, Care2
- Title IX and My Jump Shot: More Powerful Together, Kristin Maschka
- The dangerous games we play, Robin Miniter, Ruck India
- Celebrating Women in Sports with Title IX, Ty Alexander, Gorgeous In Grey
- Title IX: After Forty Years We Still Aren’t Equal, Dani Nispel, National Council of Women's Organizations
- Title IX Turns 40: Is it “Over the Hill”?, Maggie Fridinger, National Council of Women's Organizations
- Title IX & Crew: Forging Identity, Building Muscle, Sarah Lindemann, National Council of Women's Organizations
- The fight for women and girls in sport did not end with Title IX, Caitlin Constantine, Fit and Feminist
- On Graduations and Championships, Katie Larkin-Wong, Ms. JD
- Turning 40 and Still Dreaming Big!, Pat Paluzzi, Healthy Teen Netrowk
- 40 Years and Counting: Title IX and the Road to Equality, Pat Griffin, Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
- Title IX’s Anniversary Requires A Renewed Commitment To Equality, Jessica Pieklo, Care2
- Thanks to Title IX: How Sports Made Me Who I Am, Maggie Arden, Southern Yankee Speaks
- Happy 40th Title IX!, Colleen Crinion, Get Off My Soapbox
- Title IX 40th Anniversary: Internet Round-Up, Lydia, Bloomer Girls Blog
- Great Resources for the Public about Title IX, Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., One Sport Voice
- The Scarcity of Female Coaches-Part III, Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., One Sport Voice
- “The Little Statute that Could”: Reflecting on Title IX's 40th Anniversary, Erin Buzuvis, Title IX Blog
- The Legacy of Title IX, Liz Leahy, FeministLawProf
- Happy 40th Birthday, Title IX!, Shirley, League of Women Voters
- Occupying Math Class, Kat Sabine, the BITCH in the house
- Victory! Nursing Mothers Taking the LSAT Finally Catch a Break, Tiseme Zegeye, ACLU
- Title IX Victory: Civil Rights Office Condemns School’s Actions in Sexual Assault Case, Sandra Park, ACLU
- Happy 40th Anniversary, Title IX, Nicole Huberfeld, Concurring Opinions
- Visiting Capitol Hill in Celebration of 40 Years of Title IX, Galen Sherwin and Amy L. Katz, ACLU
- Quilting is not Geometry: Pregnant and Parenting Teens’ Deserve an Education Free from Discrimination, Tiseme Zegeye, ACLU
- Department of Education Office of Civil Right Decision on HISD Title IX Discrimination, ACLU
- Celebrating Title IX at 40: Texas Victory Leads to Better Response to Sexual Assault in Schools, Ariela Migdal, ACLU
- A look back at pre-Title IX days, Emmily Bristol, The Sin City Siren
- Women's Equality: The Fight Worth Fighting, Lyndsey Pecker, National Council of Jewish Women
- Title IX, Single Episode Sexual Harassment and Telling: Stories Out of School, Lolita Inniss, Ain't I a Feminist Legal Scholar Too?
- Still Throwing like a Girl after 40 years…, Janet Hill, Coalition of Labor Union Women
- The Legacy of Title IX: Obviously, Girls Can Play Sports Too, Jeff Fecke, Care2
- Title IX: Means More than Sports For My Daughter and All of Our Children, Lenora Lapidus, ACLU
- Reflections on Title IX and Race, Alfred Dennis Mathewson, University of New Mexico
- Happy Belated 40th Birthday to #TitleIX, Heather Prescott, Knitting Clio
- Before Title IX Babies, There Were Title IX Moms, Hannah Moulton Belec
- Fighting for Title IX with Legal Advocacy, Beth Scott, AAUW
- Title IX is about STEM Too, Marie Lindberg, AAUW
- Title IX, Then and Now, Emily Long, AAUW
- Title IX and Pregnant and Parenting Students, Christina Cann, AAUW
- Title IX at 40: Smashing Down the Field House Doors, Christina Cann, AAUW
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Reflections on Title IX and Race
I started teaching Sports Law in the mid-1980’s. I do not think I had heard of Title IX before then. When I started I probably did not spend much time on it. Although I prepared my own course materials, I relied upon 1979 treatise WEISTART AND LOWELL, THE LAW OF SPORTS, which included a sixteen page section entitled “Sex’ in the chapter on the Regulation of Amateur Athletics. Of those, three and a half were devoted to Title IX. The section opened with the observation that “[p]robably the most controversial rules in amateur athletics are those which classify persons who are eligible to participate on the basis of their sex.” I also looked to Ray Yasser’s 1985 SPORTS LAW casebook that devoted sixteen of sixty-six pages in the chapter entitled “Sexual Discrimination in Amateur Athletics” to Title IX. In any event, Title IX’s significance to the course ebbed with the Grove City College decision and rose again with the passage of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988. Today, the current Seventh Edition of YASSER, MCCURDY, GOPELRUD AND WESTON, SPORTS LAW devotes 47 of sixty-two pages to Title IX in the chapter entitled “Gender Equity in Amateur Athletics.” The language used to discuss Title IX issues has changed as much as the gender composition of college sports teams. I now use MITTEN, DAVIS, SMITH AND BERRY, SPORTS LAW AND REGULATION that contains a seventy-eight chapter entitled “Gender Equity Issues in Athletics” devoted almost exclusively to Title IX issues. Likewise, the chapter Intercollegiate Athletics: Gender Equity in WEILER, ROBERTS, ABRAMS AND ROSS, SPORTS AND THE LAW focuses primarily on Title IX.
I did not begin writing about Title IX until 1996 after my friend Linda Greene urged me to write about issues affecting Black women in my scholarship. She may not remember the conversation but I do. The result was Black Women, Gender Equity and the Function at the Junction. Perhaps, I chose to do so in sports law because I recall watching my sister playing six player basketball for the all Black W.A. Pattillo High School Trojans in the segregated school era. Maybe I did so because I recalled a class boycott staged by Black football players attending the White high school under a Freedom of Choice Plan when no Black girl made the cheerleading squad. But I may have done so because by then, our two daughters led busy sports lives competing in figure skating and track. Shortly after I wrote the article, my eldest daughter decided to try wrestling. As there were very few girls in the sport, they frequently had to wrestle boys. A local newspaper reporter thought a story on a figure skater who also wrestled made a wonderful human interest story. He called me. She had told him that I did not want her to wrestle and refused to go see her. Well I was not thrilled about it and had some anxiety when she called me to tell me one day that she had pinned a boy at an out of town meet. However, that was not the reason I did not go see her. My wife was commuting to and from her job in Phoenix and so I shuttled our three children to and from school and extra-curricular activities. Her school did not provide transportation to the meets so it was necessary for me to take her. Because I had to pick up her siblings from school and daycare, I would drop her off and then come back for her.
The story ran shortly before the next meeting of our university athletic council of which I was a member. Our university president had read the story and enjoined me to go see my daughter wrestle. I subsequently did. She was wrestling a boy. As fate would have it, it was not her best meet. She was able to take him down to the floor but on top of her. The wind was knocked out of her and she lay motionless on the mat. I watched patiently as I was accustomed to her taking hard falls on the ice but I had to restrain her little brother who wanted to go fight the boy. I saw her again at an exhibition for girls at the state championships. I still have her certificate. Alas, she gave up wrestling for running marathons. Her sister subsequently made the state championships in track and played soccer in college for the Spelman Jaguars. I told them sports were something to do just for fun. They still participate.
Title IX has had a profoundly positive transformative impact on American culture but the work is not yet finished on many fronts. I have focused on one in particular. I have continued to write and speak about Title IX and its impact on females of color, especially African Americans. Title IX has no doubt increased opportunities for women and girls but it has benefitted White women and girls disproportionately more. African American female athletes still have fewer opportunities to participate and obtain scholarships outside of basketball and track and field, and to obtain head coaching positions. I am committed to assuring that Title IX means equality for all women and girls regardless of race, color or ethnicity. Happy Birthday Title IX.
Appreciate today by learning about Title IX History
Our appreciation for Title IX grew enormously after we did extensive research into this revolutionary law. See http://76705925.nhd.weebly.com/ to learn about the history of Title IX through the decades since it was passed. Even though Title IX is the norm today, it does not mean it is not needed any more. People need to be vigilant to ensure that gender equality pervails in education.
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