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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.
July 15, 2008 | https://womensenews.org/2008/07/new-ceo-at-sports-foundation-mulls-marketing-moves/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.
June 8, 2008 | https://womensenews.org/2008/06/sea-summit-women-embark-adventure/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.
March 10, 2008 | https://womensenews.org/2008/03/title-ix-awards-raise-colleges-bias-liability/“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.
October 18, 2007 | https://womensenews.org/2007/10/lesbian-coaches-confront-bias-in-recruiting-game/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.
September 23, 2007 | https://womensenews.org/2007/09/sex-harassment-faces-title-ix-legal-test/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.
June 22, 2007 | https://womensenews.org/2007/06/sports-advocates-draw-line-title-ix-battlefield/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.
August 12, 2016 | https://womensenews.org/2016/08/movie-reviews-dont-miss-meryl-streep-as-florence-foster-jenkins/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.
April 6, 2013 | https://womensenews.org/2013/04/medicare-defenders-ready-paul-ryan-rematch/