Quidditch’s Title IX (and Three-Quarters): Anyone Can Ride a Broomstick
July 12, 2011 by Kathleen Richter · 7 Comments
With excitement building for the final Harry Potter movie, we’re hosting a week of posts about the series on the Ms. Blog. Today we’ve got a report on gender equity at the heart of the ...Read More
Women’s Soccer World Cup: Controversy Off the Field
June 27, 2011 by Kari Paul · 2 Comments
Tomorrow morning, the U.S. women’s soccer team will take on North Korea in their first match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which began yesterday. While the international championship ...Read More
Defying Title IX, Colleges Report Male Athletes as Women
The New York Times has a fascinating 3-minute video on “roster management.” a term referring to the manipulation of Title IX rules in order to appear like you’re following them when you’re ...Read More
Jumping for Joy
April 11, 2011 by Michele Morris · 1 Comment
When I first moved to Park City, Utah, in 2004, I was shocked to learn that women ski jumpers were not allowed to go to the Olympics. Heck, what happened to Title IX? But this is the Olympics, where ...Read More
Click! Boys Don’t Like to Lose
March 30, 2011 by Michele Kort · 5 Comments
Mike Shayne was the first boy to ever ask me out. I was 13, too young to drive, so it was the sort of date where someone’s mom dropped you off some place and picked you up a couple of hours ...Read More
Our Favorite Feminist Hoopster, Male Variety
March 17, 2011 by Matthew Burgoyne · 1 Comment
UPDATE: D.J. Gay and San Diego State will bring the power of women’s studies to the Sweet Sixteen! Read on … March Madness is in full swing, and it is time for the Ms. Blog to fill out ...Read More
Wrestling with “Religious Conviction” vs. Sports Sexism
February 23, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 15 Comments
“Really? Girls wrestling with boys? Has feminism really lost its mind?” So goes the question from Catholic blogger Defend Us in Battle, writing about Joel Northrup’s decision to withdraw from ...Read More
There’s a Reason Why Lucy Yanks the Football From Charlie Brown
February 5, 2011 by Kyle Bachan · 17 Comments
UPDATE: Behold, even more sexist ads that aired during the big game have been added below. When do corporations spend $100K-per-second for TV ads in which the product will inevitably be forgotten ...Read More
Making Sure High Schools Play Ball With Girls
February 2, 2011 by Michele Kort · Leave a Comment
Most feminists seem well aware of the strides women athletes have made since the inception of Title IX in 1972: Participation by girls and women in school sports has since gone up by 904 percent for ...Read More
Let the Women Fly
December 14, 2010 by Michele Morris · 9 Comments
The calendar may say 2010, but for women ski jumpers it’s still feeling like the 1950s when men competed and women watched. Ski jumping is the only winter Olympic event that doesn’t have a female ...Read More
