Katie Thomas reports for The New York Times: “Ever since Congress passed the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX, universities have opened their gyms and athletic fields to millions of women who previously did not have chances to play. But as wom…
In honor of the 25th annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Feb. 2, the NOW interns decided to take a personal look at the law that has benefited so many women. Signed into law in 1972, Title IX created major changes in our education system.
Robin McKie writes in The Observer: “It is the mainstay of countless magazine and newspaper features. Differences between male and female abilities – from map reading to multi-tasking and from parking to expressing emotion – can be traced to variations i…
On July 21, the American Association of University Women cheered a court decision announcing that cheerleading is not a sport.
David Moltz of Inside Higher Ed