Zoe Smith takes on everyone
Mary Elizabeth Williams writes for Salon.com: “If the London Olympics can teach us anything, let it be that women weightlifters are the coolest, most well-adjusted young women in the world.”
issue: Title IX/Education
Sally Ride’s spaceflight was one giant leap for womankind
Patt Morrison writes for the Los Angeles Times: “Sally Ride was the real deal, a scientist with major chops, when she stepped — or was nudged — onto the national stage in 1978, as one of the first group of women destined for the astronaut corps.”
Happy Birthday, Title IX
I want to write an uplifting piece about loving one’s self. Disclaimer: This is not that piece. Like any other twenty-something, I am easily distracted when on the Internet, and I stumble upon a whole different issue.
President Obama on Title IX’s impact
Video on espnW.com: Andy Katz chats with President Obama about his thoughts on the impact of Title IX legislation and his role as a volunteer coach for his daughter’s basketball team.
NOW Calls on Penn State’s Board of Trustees to Expand Review Committee; Address All Forms of Campus Violence
In the wake of the recent appalling Penn State University child sexual assault allegations, the national leaders of the National Organization for Women join Pennsylvania NOW in calling on the school to expand the composition and goals of the committee tasked with investigating these allegations.