Rename this book — beyond 37 Words
Help rename this book -- 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.
Paperback coming of Title IX history
The New Press will release a trade paperback version of 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.
The sounds of change on Title IX playlist
I asked the people who appear in my book 37 Words to share some of the songs they listened to during their struggles against sex discrimination in education, and put them in a Title IX playlist. These are some of…
37 Words for 47 weeks
Tuesday, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, also was World Read Aloud Day and the second day of National Library Lovers Month. That's a hodgepodge, I admit. But it's perhaps a fitting way to introduce the first of a…
Now you can preorder 37 Words!
I'm thrilled to announce that now you can preorder 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (The New Press, 2022). Order now and you'll be one of the first to receive the book when it ships…
Women got Ford to fund Title IX
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…
Too [fill in the blank] for a woman
Whatever you think of the outcome of the lawsuit by Ellen Pao claiming sex discrimination at the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, a tactic used by the company's defense team could make one cringe -- character assassination. (Video: Bernice…
Video history from women behind Title IX
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…
Title IX foremothers gather in D.C.
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…
37 words that inspired thousands
Bernice Sandler wanted to be a professor. Patsy Takemoto Mink hoped to be a doctor. Meg Newman wanted to play baseball in high school. Emma Sulkowicz just wanted to feel safe on a college campus. Thirty-seven words make those dreams possible today…