49 Years of Title IX: From Equity in Women’s Sports to Transgender Rights to My Feminist-Athlete Mom
June 28, 2021 at 04:22 pm EDT
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Faculty Relationship Manager Kelsy Doheny shares her personal perspective on The Latest as an active member of three of 2U's employee-led Business Resource Networks (BRNs): the Womxn's Alliance Network (W.A.N.), the Asian Pacific Islander Network (APIN), and 2Q, the BRN for LGBTQIA+ employees and allies.
Forty-nine years ago this month, on June 23, 1972, Title IXwas passed as part of a series of Federal Education Amendments that extended civil rights protections to the higher education community. Nestled between the rise of feminist activism in the 1960s and the failure of the ERA in the late 1970s, this landmark legislation was a pivotal achievement in the Women's Movement. Many Americans may associate Title IX with women's athletics, but that is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle, of which various aspects continue to be debated today.
The Impact of Title IX on Access, Inclusion, and Reporting
The purpose of Title IX was to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex from any educational institution that receives federal funding. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) states that Title IX protections extend to 'recruitment, admissions, and counseling; financial assistance; athletics; sex-based harassment, which encompasses sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence; treatment of pregnant and parenting students; treatment of LGBTQ+ students; discipline; single-sex education; and employment.' As 2U supports higher education and works with university partners who receive federal funding from the U.S. government, this legislation impacts our company in several ways.
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