At the May meeting of the NCAA Gender Equity Forum, sports officials from across the country gathered to discuss how their schools comply with Title IX, which requires that institutions receiving federal money offer equitable athletic opportunities to male and female students. At that meeting, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights unveiled [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NCAA’
Get Mad for Women’s Basketball
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women and Civil Rights, tagged basketball, Baylor, Connecticut, Huskies, Lady Vols, March Madness, NCAA, Pat Summitt, sports, Stanford, Tennessee, tournament, women's bracket on March 15, 2011, | 5 Comments »
March Madness is here! For basketball fans across the country, that means filling out tournament brackets, entering office betting pools, cheering on alma maters, and occasionally breaking down in tears while watching a favorite team soar to victory or wallow in defeat. My love of basketball was instilled at an early age. My parents started [...]
UC Berkeley to Keep Women’s Sports Teams
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged baseball, gymnastics, Know the Score, lacrosse, Legal Advocacy Fund, NCAA, Program in a Box, rugby, UC Berkeley on March 9, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
In September 2010, the University of California, Berkeley, announced its intention to eliminate four student sports teams — women’s and men’s gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, and baseball — and to make the rugby team a club sport instead of an intercollegiate sport. A few weeks ago, campus officials announced that they had changed their minds. While [...]
A Victory for Title IX
Posted in Equity in the News, Title IX, tagged athletics, intercollegiate athletics, NCAA, student athletes, Title IX, women's athletics on April 21, 2010, | 5 Comments »
April is perhaps the greatest month in the sports calendar. Among other things, you’ve got Opening Day and the start of a new MLB season, the beginning of the NHL and NBA playoffs, the Masters golf tournament , and the Final Four in the men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments. It’s hard to improve upon [...]
Celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Posted in The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, Angela Taylor, basketball, Comcast Center, Debbie Yow, Duke University, Know the Score, Mystics, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, NCAA, student athletes, Terrapins, Title IX, University of Maryland, Washington Mystics, women in sports, women's athletics on January 7, 2010, | 6 Comments »
AAUW is partnering with the Washington Mystics to celebrate their third annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, January 24 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This event is open to the public, and we hope that area AAUW branches and members will be able to attend! The celebration will involve [...]
Category Cloud
-
Recent Posts
- Meet Marina Núñez del Prado: Famed Bolivian Artist
- Nearly a Decade Later, a Settlement in the UC Davis Title IX Case
- Guerrilla Warfare for Women Artists
- Fact: Female Role Models Make a Difference
- Another Presidents Day without a U.S. Woman President
- Thumbs-up Award and AAUW Dialog Art Week
- Remembering Henrietta Lacks, the Woman behind HeLa Cells
- Questioning the Rationale for Reduced Budget for Women’s Bureau
- Cultivating Women Firefighters — Gals Only! Fire Science Camp
- Introducing It’s My Vote: I Will Be Heard
-
Recent Comments
Wholesale Plastic Ba… on Congress Should Act Now to Ext… ShyEntrepreneur on Meet Jessica Faye Carter: Writ… Mikayla Wilson on Madam C.J. Walker: “I go… Carol Samuels on Fact: Female Role Models Make … mspy review on HERVotes brenda on Another Presidents Day without… bonnie3747 on Fact: Female Role Models Make … Categories
Help Stop Sexual Violence
Archives
AAUW Updates- Legislative Alerts
Tags
AAUW National
