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Condoleezza Rice on IOU Sports motto - Share, Educate and Empower.
By Bernell Hooker
Biden Announces Change in Title IX Women's Sports Policy
Media Credit: Michelle Rattinger/assistant photo editor
Vice President Joe Biden announced changes to Title IX Tuesday afternoon in the Smith Center. The changes to the law - which promotes equality for female athletes - repealed a Bush-era policy that allowed universities to rely on student surveys to prove compliance with the law.
Just Jillian… | Our Grandmothers & Mothers: Laying the Foundation for Girls to have a Sporting Chance
With Mother’s Day quickly approaching (Sunday, May 9th), I thought I would take a moment to think about where we have come as a nation to support girls and women’s participation in sport.
Women who played Sports - Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
A self-described "jock" who shined on the basketball court, where she was team captain, and in field hockey.
Girl files suit over hockey
By Amy Hetzner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted: Oct. 21, 2009
Playing Fair: A Guide to Title IX
Reprinted courtesy of the Women's Sports Foundation
“I know there’s something that’s just not fair here, but I don’t know what to do about it.”
Equity in Coaching Declining as More Men Coach Women
Print Courtesy of NACWAA University Park, Pa. – Female athletes are half as likely to have female coaches today than they were before enactment of Title IX in 1972, even though there are 10 times more female athletes to feed the pipeline to coaching, according to a Penn State study.
Errors mar equity reports
By Jodi Upton and Erik Brady, USA TODAY A federal law intended to shine light on whether colleges treat male and female athletes equitably is mired in mistakes, interpretation errors and bureaucratic neglect 10 years after its passage, a USA TODAY investigation has found.