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New CEO at Sports Foundation Mulls Marketing Moves

By Viv Bernstein ● Arts & Culture ● July 15, 2008

After opening a Hall of Fame for women’s sports and switching CEOs, the Women’s Sports Foundation is at a crucial juncture. In a tighter marketplace for sponsors, the group finds itself competing with the results of its own Title IX success.

From Sea to Summit, Women Embark on Adventure

By Viv Bernstein ● Arts & Culture ● June 8, 2008

From Roz Savage to Alison Criscitiello, women are rowing the oceans and scaling the world’s highest peaks. They often take a cause along on the journey as they push conventional limits on women’s endurance.

Title IX Awards Raise Colleges’ Bias Liability

By Viv Bernstein ● Crime & Law ● March 10, 2008

A string of jury awards in Title IX cases at Fresno State, part of California’s state university system, should serve as a warning sign for other schools. But women’s sports advocates say the legal battle is far from over, as a case in Florida shows.

Lesbian Coaches Confront Bias in Recruiting Game

By Viv Bernstein ● Arts & Culture ● October 18, 2007

“Negative recruiting” in college sports can refer to a coach’s criticism of a competing school. But in women’s sports it focuses on an opposing coach’s sexual orientation so often that an organized response to the problem is now underway.

Sex Harassment Faces Title IX Legal Test

By Viv Bernstein ● Arts & Culture ● September 23, 2007

Title IX is often equated with equal opportunity in athletics but the 1972 law also addresses sexual harassment. If the Supreme Court decides to hear a case involving a star college soccer coach it could clarify this aspect of gender-equity law.

Sports Advocates Draw Line on Title IX Battlefield

By Viv Bernstein ● Arts & Culture ● June 22, 2007

Athletics programs and gender equality advocates still battle over how best to comply with the federal law that guarantees equal opportunity in college sports decades after the law was enacted. Second of two stories on Title IX’s 35th anniversary.

Movie Reviews: Don’t Miss Meryl Streep as ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’

By Jennifer Merin ● Arts & Culture ● August 12, 2016

And the list of strong documentaries opening this week includes Molly Bernstein’s “An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell.” Go see it; you’ll never look at a garage sale the same way again.

Medicare Defenders Ready for a Paul Ryan Rematch

By Sharon Johnson ● Uncategorized ● April 6, 2013

As Congress resumes today, advocates for older women are girding for another round of health care battles. One group has re-released its 2011 “Granny Off the Cliff” video showing the GOP budget leader pushing an older woman over the edge of survival.

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