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A thirteen-year-old girl says she was relentlessly bullied at her Pennsylvania middle school after kids found out she had a yeast infection. Now a judge says she can sue. More »
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A young man known in court documents as John Doe is suing the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee for $3 million, claiming the school didn't follow its own federally mandated due process rules in trying another student's rape claim against him. "Doe" was expelled; the alleged victim, who chose not to pursue criminal charges, has since left the school to seek substance abuse treatment. More »
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Ten years ago, female wrestlers Arezou Mansourian, Lauren Mancuso and Christine Wing-Si sued the University of California, Davis for, they said, violating Title IX in offering equal opportunity to female athletes. Today, they got their ruling, a mixed one in which both sides claimed victory. More »
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On the heels of news that universities were lying to fulfill Title IX requirements comes the revelation that some are pre-emptively cutting men's sports to avoid violations in the future. So what's the best way to protect women's athletics without short-changing men? More »
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Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan kicked off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with an appearance at the University of New Hampshire, issuing a new set of guidelines for all colleges and universities receiving federal funds. More »
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A slideshow over at Title Nine reminds us that models do more than wear clothes — and that women's bodies are for doing awesome shit, not just looking hot. The ladies above (and more!) exude "competence, confidence and joy." [via] More »
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Thanks in part to Title IX funding, coaches are getting better and more sophisticated, girls are getting better training, and more players are becoming super-skilled, reports the NY Times. Something even feminist Sarah Palin can be happy about. More »
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The National Women's Law Center filed complaints with the federal government accusing 12 schools nationwide of violating Title IX. Only 41% of high school athletes are girls, and a spokeswoman says, "These schools are just the tip of the iceberg." More »
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Following a judge's ruling that, for the purposes of gender equality, cheerleading is not a sport, several critics have come out against Title IX, arguing that it is no longer helping college athletics. Is Title IX ready for retirement? More »
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• Scottish Brewery BrewDog are selling what they claim is the most expensive beer ever created. The beverage is 55% alcohol and comes packaged inside a dead animal. It also costs over $700.

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A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that cheerleading isn't really a sport. Many cheerleaders would beg to differ. More »
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•  Judge Stan Strickland has taken himself off the case in the trial of Casey Anthony. Anthony's defense attorney had repeatedly accused Strickland of forming a "personal relationship" with members of the media and exhibiting bias against his client. More »
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As colleges skew more female, they're looking for ways to comply with Title IX without eliminating men's sports. One solution: classify cheerleading as a sport. But is this bad for female athletes? More »
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Many schools are considering whether rules should be put in place to make cheerleading safer, as it's responsible for many serious injuries among young women. But the sport's pom-pon shaking origins may be making it even more dangerous. More »
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Writes Judy Berman in Salon, "Although women's bodies can do incredible, unique things of their own (childbirth, anyone?), men seem to have a biological advantage when it comes to feats of strength and speed." But of course it's more complicated: More »
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared — in the first speech to Parliament given by a President since Napoleon — that the burqa is "a sign of the subjugation, of the submission of women." • More »
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Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports, and the adults who want to encourage them. More »
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This spring, New York City high schools have added double dutch as a varsity sport in an effort to get urban girls involved in sports, but similar programs are lacking in cities nationwide. More »
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A 17-year-old Indiana student is suing her school for the right to wear a tuxedo to her senior prom. Says her lawyer, dresses "indicate a sexual identity that is not her own." [UPI] More »
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A new study from the Women's Sports Foundation shows that, despite claims from the Title IX-decrying College Sports Council, men's participation in college sports went up up 6 percent between 1995 and 2005. John Cheslock, who authored the study, also finds that increased spending on certain men's sports as well as trends in high school sports (like increased participation in soccer and lacrosse) have affected colleges' decisions to drop various sports programs. The College Sports Council's response was a mixture of sarcasm and whining about how we're missing the point, which is pretty much what we expect to hear from a group dedicated to overturninghauling Title IX. [Wall Street Journal] More »
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Billie Jean King was on NPR's Morning Edition today talking about the impending 35th anniversary of the "Battle of the Sexes" she fought with professional jerkface Bobby Riggs. For those too young to remember, Riggs, an aging tennis star, challenged King to a tennis match, saying he would beat her because women are too weak to compete against men. Well, Billie Jean handed Riggs his ass in three straight sets, and it was a very public victory for all women in sports. Flash forward to now, and the battle of the sexes is no longer about athletic prowess: on the college level at least, it's about athletic funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, some think that money going to female athletes is making it hard for college athletic programs to provide for less popular men's sports, like gymnastics. More »
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Despite being edged out and hugely disappointed by her second place finish in the 400 meter race, American sprinter Sanya Richards managed to overtake the Russians and help the U.S. women win gold as the anchor of the 4X400 relay on Saturday. (Clip of the last two legs of the race is at left.) The night after her silver medal win, says Richards, "I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's hard. I worked for four years." But after Saturday's relay victory, Richards felt vindicated. "At least now I have something positive to think about. I have to say it was good," she says. We won more medals on the women's side in how many years? I'm really proud of the team and the fact we ended up on a high note". More »
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If you're familiar with Title IX, you probably just think of it as the law forbidding gender discrimination in college and high school sports. But in actuality, the law forbids gender discrimination in all forms of education, and there's a growing call to apply Title IX to science departments receiving federal grants. As we've discussed before, women are opting out of "hard science" fields like physics and chemistry, though they are the majority in sciences like psychology and biology. Opponents of applying Title IX to science departments say that male bias is not to blame for the disparity — female choice is. The NY Times' John Tierney quotes columnist cum clinical psychologist Susan Pinker: "Creating equal opportunities for women does not mean that they’ll choose what men choose in equal numbers. The freedom to act on one’s preferences can create a more exaggerated gender split in some fields.” More »
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There's been a lot of debate and backlash about Michael Sokolove's New York Times Magazine article on the rash of injuries among young women in sports. What does it mean? Is it all "poor little rich girl" syndrome, or a way to justify the old Bush Administration Commission on Opportunity in Athletics report that said Title IX should be relaxed to allow colleges to survey women about what sports they want to play and allocate money accordingly? Sokolove's response will be printed in this weekend's magazine, and there are some interesting points made about the differences in officiating, the need some young women have to be thin and athletic, and, yes, the pushy-parent syndrome. It stands in rather stark contrast to Timesman John Tierney's blog post in which he suggests us crazy feminists are at fault. Oh, yes, he went there. More »
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"To believe that the Times accurately reflects the world and then go out into the streets of New York is to be struck by a sense of the absurd," wrote Earl Shorris in the October 1977 Harper's. So yeah, one doesn't actually "expect the world" from the extra Newtons of force expended in picking up a Sunday Times; personally, I expect an extra six sections of absurd frivolity to blog about, but mercifully, the cover stories of the Sunday Magazine are generally too nuanced, important, unfrivolous, and (let's be srs) long to do justice to Jezebel. This week's, "Girls Hurt," was a notable exception. (Exception to the exception: fuck was it long.) There was so much that was objectionable about the epic examination of high school female athletes and knee problems that many of you sent us emails urging us to object on your behalf, but the most objectionable thing — not to scold! — is that none of you seemed to object for what I think is the right reason. More »
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• Lest you think that the murder of 8-months-pregnant Jessie Davis at the hands of this man is an anomaly, think again. Homicide is the second-leading cause of death among pregnant women. [ABCNews]

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