Acosta & Carpenter 29 Year Longitudinal Study Now Available R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter's study, Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study Twenty Nine Year Update 1977-2006, is available here in PDF format and is available via the Acosta and Carpenter website

Generation of Title IX Project

Status of Women in Sport

Acosta and Carpenter have finished compiling the “Status of Women in Sport” 31st year longitudinal study questionnaires. Go to acostacarpentor.org to view the full 40 pages of results.

There is also a one page handout available at the site for downloading which give the highlights of the law in case anyone needs a handout for a presentation or talk with students, etc.

There is good news on the report. 14,742 women are employed in NCAA intercollegiate athletics programs as ADs, coaches, paid assistant coaches, head athletic trainers and SID, and athletics administrators. The percent of females ADs is higher than at any time since the mid 1970s and, although the representation of females as coaches remains second to its all time low two years ago, the participation rates are higher than ever.

Informational Webpages

T-Time Productions is pleased to announce the launch of the "License to Thrive: Title IX at 35" project website. http://licensetothrive.org/

The NCAA's Gender Equity Hompage - http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/ed_outreach/gender_equity/homepage.html

The NCAA Gender Equity Manual - http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/gender_equity/gender_equity_manual.pdf

The NCAA Title IX Resource Center - http://www.ncaa.org/titleix/index2.html

Informational Articles

Femanist Majority Foundation and Title IX Action Network bring you Title IX Resources... click here for link

For information about the "Generations of Title IX" program or other NAGWS programs or services, please visit their website at www.nagws.org or contact them at 703-476-3400.

Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls’ Physical Activity and Weight

NACWAA Title IX Committee
 
Title IX Cases/Articles
 
Save Title IX Awareness Bracelets, Educational materials
Now available in the Title IX store

Speaking Out
WNBA star Tamika Catchings and her dad, former NBA star have spoken out to Secretary of Education to Save Title IX - click here to download the PDF

Defending Their Rights
Remeber Roderick Jackson, the girls' basketball coach who lost his job when he spoke up for his girls when they weren't treated fairly? The Supreme Court agreed with him and now Congress has heard what he had to say about Title IX. For access, click here

Title IX Is Still in Jeopardy
On March 17, 2005, the Education Department quietly changed the rules for Title IX compliance, weakening the law, and threatening future sports opportunities for women and girls.

- Over the past 30 years, Title IX has quadrupled the number of women college athletes and increased high school girls athletes eight-fold. Please tell Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to withdraw her recent Title IX "clarification" and focus on enforcing the law instead of weakening it.

- As [an athlete, mother/father of an athlete, coach, etc.] who has seen first hand the benefit of sports, I am counting on you to support Title IX.

All members of the House and Senate need to get this message from their constituents immediately. Postcards, emails, faxes, letters, phone calls, meetings, dropping by district office, town hall meetings, carrier pigeon are all great ways to communicate with Congress. Creativity is encouraged. For example, get your women's/girls' basketball team to sign a ball and deliver it to your Senator asking him/her to restore Title IX (however, people should not delay emailing while planning something flashier).

The following link provides access to your Congressional representatives:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=nc

Gender Equity Statement
Adopted 1992
Gender equity is an atmosphere and a reality where fair distribution of overall athletic opportunity and resources, proportionate to enrollment, are available to women and men, and where no student athlete, coach, or athletic administrator is discriminated against in any way in the athletic program on basis of gender. That is to say, an athletics program is gender equitable when the men's sports program would be pleased to accept as its own, the overall participation, opportunities, and resources currently allocated to the women's sports program and vice versa.


The Acosta-Carpenter 27th Longitutidial Study 2004
Visit the Women in Sport website to review and download the full study report: Women in Intercollegiate Sport - A Longitudinal, National Study Twenty Seven Year Update: 1977-2004.


Title IX Website Launched
We invite you to visit the latest addition to websites offering Title IX information. Visit www.titleix.info for coverage of the ten areas of NCWGE's report, "Title IX at 30"

www.savetitleix.com