Settlement provides gains for the women’s athletic department in every area of athletics; WSF is ready to help institutions adopt these new legal precedents, and to help institutions, athletes and their families eliminate some of the long-standing gaps between men’s and women’s athletics.
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AUGUST 16, 2012: WSF CEO and Kathryn Olson and President Laila Ali wrote an Op-Ed piece for the San Fransisco Chronicle, titled "Strong is Pretty, Olympics are Proof."
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MARCH 30, 2012: A federal district court recently dismissed the lawsuit filed in July 2011 by the American Sports Council that was designed to weaken Title IX and to prevent it from applying to high school athletics.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2012 - The Women’s Sports Foundation and the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA), along with 56 other influential groups and individuals from around the country, are rallying to support the DOE's recent Guidance outlined in a “Dear Colleague Letter,” which explains schools’ responsibilities for addressing campus sexual violence under Title IX.
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The Women’s Sports Foundation’s position is that sporting organizations like the AIBA should responsibly produce research, evidence or other objective analysis to demonstrate the need for such restrictions, prior to mandating athletic apparel regulations which limit the apparel choices of athletes, as a matter of process.
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The American Sports Council files suit against the Departmnet of Education in an attempt to inject alarm and uncertainty into an area where there is none.
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The New York Times’ article, At Two-Year Colleges, Less Scrutiny Equals Less Athletic Equality, emphasizes the importance of Title IX oversight, and the ongoing importance of the laws themselves.
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Senior Director of Advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation, was quoted, “As long as it’s actually operating as a sport, we welcome it into the women’s sports tent . . . this is another aesthetic sport that if done right could provide lots more girls with legitimate sports experiences.”
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Rather than blaming Title IX, female athletes, or Washington bureaucrats, the Women’s Sports Foundation calls upon schools to embrace the principle of gender equity and equal treatment as the norm.
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The Women’s Sports Foundation congratulates Katie Thomas for her hard work and in-depth analysis reflected in today’s New York Times article, College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity. The article exposes the fact that some schools purposefully undermine gender equity laws by engineering athletic opportunities for women that are incomparable to the opportunities provided to men.
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