The leaked draft Supreme Court decision that could cancel abortion rights dominated headlines this week, but earlier abortion controversy altered Title IX history in ways that are worth remembering. Read more about this in my article in The Washington Post Made by History…
Big names in academia gave shameful public lessons recently on what institutional betrayal looks like. At Harvard University, 38 faculty members signed an open letter challenging the university’s decision to bar anthropologist John Comaroff from teaching or taking on new…
Terry Saario in the 1970s Saario today. (Photos courtesy of Terry Saario) A good idea doesn't go very far, very fast without financing. In the early years of Title IX, key funds came through a new cohort of women hired or…
The Chicago Public School District just got its sports programs schooled by a Hall of Famer. Not a sports star, mind you, but Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center. (Video: Greenberger describes her reasons for pursuing legal…
Eleven of the women most closely involved in the struggle to implement Title IX gathered on January 26, 2015 to give a living history of this most important legislation for U.S. women since the right to vote. Focusing mainly on…
I'm heading home from an intensive two weeks in Washington, D.C. doing interviews and research for my book on the people behind Title IX, and I'm especially grateful to Margaret Dunkle for inviting me to a historic gathering of 11…