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KatHYMaGnUson noRMasMItHoLson “Thirty-seven words that changed our society,” is how Rayla Allison, associate director at the University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology, described Title IX in April at an event at the University of Minnesota. “No person in the United States and wrestling. Beyond sports, Julie shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded Seger writes about the importance from participation in, be denied the of Title IX in education, especially benefits of, or be subjected to- dis concerning sexual harassment and crimination under any educational bullying. MWP Columnist Shannon program or activity receiving federalDrury tackles changes in girls’ think- financial assistance.” ing about math and science. This civil rights legislation men- As we celebrate Title IX in this tions education but not sports, thoughissue, we celebrate women in many this is the area where its impact for arenas. 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orderformatwww.womenspress.com•651-646-3968•[email protected] Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 5 YoURtHoUGHts Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For June we asked: What is your Title IX story? See more thoughts on on the MWP website, www.womenspress.com thank you title IX! It was because of Title IX that I got my first job. After graduating from Moorhead State in 1973, I spent the summer inter- OF DEB JACOBSON COURTESY viewing for physical education jobs. My former college basketball coach told me about an opening at Northland College in Thief River Falls. I didn’t think I had much chance since I just graduated and had no previous experience, but I applied. It became evident that the college under- the 40th anniversary of title iX was celebrated at northland college, thief river Falls, april 1, bringing stood the importance of Title IX. I was hired,together players and coaches from each decade since 1970, including deb Jacobson, middle row, left. as a part-time instructor in physical educa- - tion and health, with the understanding The next year, Title IX passed, athletic Title IX along with the increased oppor tunities for women and girls. One such that I would see to the creation of women’s teams (and scholarships) for women sports. On May 9, 1974, Northland College opened up but by then, I had chosen complication: Even though the number fielded its first varsity team (softball) for another path. I do wonder how my life of coaching jobs in women’s sports has women. The following year volleyball and would have been different had I felt I increased significantly since 1972, the basketball were offered. belonged and could thrive as a strong number of female coaches has decreased. A I retired from Northland after 34 years. athletic woman during those pivotal teen marked lack of female coaches—especially - I have seen many positive changes in years. I am grateful that the passage of in collegiate sports—sends a subtle mes sage to young women about their potential women’s athletics, but I am also concerned Title IX has opened so many doors so girls about the declining number of female and women, like my daughter, have the for attaining leadership roles in sports. coaches and athletic administrators. opportunity to stretch their muscles and C Lee Tressel, Minneapolis Title IX is still a work in progress. Happy brains and bodies to the limit in the joy of organized sports. 40th Anniversary! Jan Howland Truchan, Mounds View Deb Jacobson, Thief River Falls, Minn. What Women Want ‘I coulda bin a contenda!’ Girl Power corrections The recognition of St. Benedict’s Senior Because my high school didn’t offer I was fortunate to grow up during the late-1980s and ‘90s, when Title IX and Community in the May issue as Favorite swimming as a sport, I trained at the local Elder Housing, should have included both YMCA on my way to the Olympic Trialsthe Girl Power movement ensured that I believed playing sports was not only my the Monticello and St. Cloud locations. in 1968. Upon graduation in 1971—as a Unity Church-Unitarian, honored as result of unfortunate circumstances at natural right but also a wholly positive a Favorite Women-Friendly Spiritual home as well as the fact that no colleges at thing to do. Thanks to Title IX, I had a var- sity basketball team and a club lacrosse Community, is a Unitarian Universalist that time offered scholarships, much less Church and is not a church in the Unity - team to play for in college. a team—my promising career as a nation denomination. ally ranked swimmer came to an end. Now as an adult, I am aware of some of the complications that developed under We apologize for the errors.
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I can’t even begin to imagine what he could say or do “ that would change religious women’s beliefs. —Longtime Twin Cities peace activist, Sister Brigid McDonald, CSJ, on Pope Benedict” XVI Source: www.minnpost.com now it’s the girls’ turn stop photoshopping! We’ve heard about the Vatican’s Even a former editor at Seventeen investigation of American women’s magazine thinks it’s a good idea religious orders, because it thinks to feature “real” teen girls. Dede they are running rampant with Lahman joined 14-year-old Julia “radical feminist themes incompatible Bluhm’s campaign, after reading with the Catholic faith,” but have you about the high-profile mock photo- heard about the official inquiry into the pro - shoot the teenager staged in front grams of the Girl Scouts by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops? of Seventeen headquarters in New At issue is concern about program materials and organizational York on May 2, 2012. Bluhm, with a alliances that conflict with church teaching. Critics contend that Girl group of young women, delivered Scouts materials shouldn’t contain links to groups such as Doctors 30,000 signatures gathered through Without Borders, the Sierra Club and Oxfam because they support Change.org. They are asking for one un-photoshopped family planning or emergency contraception. The Girl Scouts, how- photo spread per month. Too much to ask? Said Bluhm: ever, say it has no partnership with Planned Parenthood and does “Seventeen magazine is supposed to be a relatable maga- not take positions on sexuality, birth control and abortion. zine, right? How can we relate to computer-altered photos?” About one-fourth of the 2.3 million Girl Scout youth members Lahman said she left the magazine industry because she are Catholic. felt her young readers deserved better than gratuitously Souce: www.ap.org altered images. Source: www.change.org
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In the 40 years since it passed, Title tal benefits that can accrue through sport featured female athletes in the annual IX has played an important role in girls’ participation. “Swimsuit Issue”—its best-selling issue and women’s sport participation in the The sheer numbers, visiblity and excel- every year. Yet female athletes appear on United States. Record numbers of females lence of female athletes and women’s the cover of non-swimsuit issues of SI less are playing sports at all levels. In 1972, sports have helped create a broader- culthan 5 percent of the time. The same pat- the year Title IX was passed, 1 in 27 girls tural context in which female athleticismtern exists for ESPN The Magazine, where played sports; in 2012 that number is is increasingly commonplace and cele- female athletes appear nude on the cover approximately 1 in 2.5. Today, females brated. Yet we are far from a world of gen- of “The Body” issue, but rarely appear on comprise approximately 40 percent of all der equality in American sport—access the cover of non-“body” issues. interscholastic and intercollegiate sport and participation opportunity vary dras - Females participants, and play professional leveltically depending on the intersections of underrepresented sports that seemed beyond reach 40 years gender, race, class and geography. in power positions ago—including professional football Based on the 2011 National Federation Women are scarce in positions of (Independent Women’s Football League), of State High School Association’s power within sports organizations. basketball (Women’s National Basketball data, boys (4,494,406) outnumber girls Proportionally fewer female head coaches Association) and softball (National Pro (3,173,549) and the same pattern is true Fastpitch League). for college athletes where males com- of female college athletes exist in 2012 prise 57 percent of all athletes while only(about 43 percent), than in 1972 (about 90 43 percent of the college student popula- percent). In collegiate, interscholastic and tion is male. Inequities remain for female youth sport, females comprise less than 20 athletes in other realms too—especially percent of all coaches. Only five of the 120 in terms of media attention and oppor- athletic directors in NCAA Division I-A— tunities to coach and lead in the world of the biggest and most prominent collegiate sport. programs—are female. Today 19 percent “Seeing” female athletes of collegiate athletic directors across all - in the media divisional levels are female, represent ing a sharp decline from 1972 when over Thirty years of sport media research- 90 percent of those who oversaw female COURTESY OF THE TUCKER CENTER COURTESY ers have documented that female athletes athletics programs were female. Many are drastically underrepresented in sport call these declines “unintended conse- media proportional to participation rates. quences” of Title IX. Based on the latest data in 2009, televised The explanatory factors are many and news coverage of women’s sport is at its complex. Females often have to perform lowest level in 20 years—accounting for at higher levels than their male - col nicole M. lavoi less than 2 percent. leagues to succeed, face sterotypes about When female athletes do receive main- competence, gender and leadership, As Mary Jo Kane, the director of the stream media attention, portrayals are feel scritinzed and not supported, are at increased risk for gender discrimination Tucker Center for Research on Girls & typically sexualized in ways that highlight Women in Sport at the University of traditional gender roles, and marginalize due to sexual harassment and face wage Minnesota often states, “In one genera- and trivialize athleticism. Audiences are inequities and limited opportunities for more likely to see a female athlete in her - tion we’ve gone from girls hoping there promotion. Women in sport often experi swimsuit posing on the beach than in her was a team, to girls hoping they’d make ence informal negative social interactions, the team.” More females than ever before uniform on the court. For example, since including overt sexism and challenges to are reaping the health and developmen- the early 2000s, Sports Illustrated (SI) has their authority by male coaches, parents Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 9 and the “old-boys network” at work sport remains contested and incom- in their leagues. plete. This important anniversary FFI: At the higher, more competitive can provide a catalyst for creating Nicole M. LaVoi recommends these readings and levels of sport, homophobia and strategies to achieve participation websites for further background on Title IX: heterosexism also impact female access and opportunity for all girls, career trajectories. Some lesbians increased representation of females Women in Intercollegiate Sport: a Longitudinal, remain closeted due to perceived in positions of power in sport, and National Study 35 Year Update. Acosta, V., & threats to their job security and proportional media coverage pri- Carpenter, L. J. (2012). www.acostacarpenter.org advancement, recruitment issues marily focused on athleticism. Such The Glass Wall: Women continue to shatter and fear of discrimination and initiatives can help change outdated stereotypes as athletes. So how come they can’t backlash. Heterosexual athletes stereotypes about the capabilities catch a break as coaches? Fagan, K. & Cyphers, L. and coaches—who must constantlyand capacities of females—which (2012). http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/ “prove” their sexual identity, dealisn’t just good for girls and women, story?page=theGlassWall with persistent negative sterotypes,it’s good for everyone. or defend their sport participation Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D. is the associate NCAA® Sports Sponsorship and Participation choices—are also affected. director of the Tucker Center for Re- Rates Report, 1981-82 to 2009-10. NCAA These experiences, taken together, search on Girls & Women in Sport and (November, 2010). create what some call a “glass ceil- teaches sport psychology and sport www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/ ing” or “glass wall” that influence sociology in the School of Kinesiol- PR2011.pdf many women not to enter or “opt ogy at the University of Minnesota. Participation Statistics. National Federation of out” of volunteer opportunities or Her blog, One Sport Voice, is at www.State High School Associations (2011). www.nfhs. careers in sport. nicolemlavoi.com org/Participation/SportSearch.aspx What lies ahead? Editor’s note: This article in part is The Next 40. The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & conceptually driven from Cooky, C. Women in Sport www.tuckercenter.org & LaVoi, N.M. (2012). Playing but The 40th anniversary of Title IX National Women’s Law Center www.nwlc.org presents the opportunity to advo- Losing: Women’s Sports after Title cate, agitate, educate and reflect IX. Contexts, 11, 42-45. Alliance for Women Coaches www.gocoaches.org upon its promises and limitations. Title IX www.titleix.info Despite progress, the movement for gender equality in American
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‘You can’t back out now’ Dorothy McIntyre has advocated and advanced girls’ high-school athletics for decades by Anne Hamre In Minnesota, girls were playing basketball before boys. The sport was invented in 1891, and in 1893, Carleton College in Northfield became one of the first schools with a women’s team. Each year, more and more schools added basketball to their sports offerings for girls. And then it all went away. adopted the position that girls should came by the hundreds” to gymnastics By the time an Iowa-bred physical edu- play for fun—not competitively. Schoolsclinics McIntyre organized and con- cation and social studies teacher arrived were advised to replace girls’ teamsducted. Organizers taught themselves to at Eden Prairie High School in 1959, the with “recreation” programs. Girls began judge the sport, began to plan meets and only “sport” for girls was cheerleading for returning to school in the fall to find theirturned their thoughts to volleyball and the boys. Gradually, the girls began ask - teams gone. Remaining teams soon found track. Eventually, McIntyre and her - col ing: Why can’t we do more? they had no one to compete with. leagues got the attention of the Minnesota Dorothy McIntyre took the ball and ran Girls were told, “It’s too hard on you” State High School League (MSHSL). with it. After a decades-long intermission, and “You might not be able to have babies The MSHSL set up a committee, on Minnesota girls were getting back in the later,” according to McIntyre. In other which McIntyre served, to write bylaws game. words: “It’s for your own good.” for girls’ sports. In 1969—three years For her own good By 1943, Minnesota’s girls’ basketball before Title IX legislation was enacted— teams were gone. the League said yes to girls’ sports, and Girls’ teams flourished across ‘Be reasonable’ began searching for someone to get things Minnesota in the early 1900s. But the up and running. backlash was building. In the early ’60s, McIntyre and like- McIntyre was urged to apply, but hesi- minded educational and athletic col- In the 1920s, the Women’s Division of tated. She loved teaching and felt she leagues began with gymnastics. “Girls the National Amateur Athletic Federation lacked administrative experience.
the greatest danger WHITING SARAH “to anything women have worked to change is apathy—complacency. once you say, ‘oK, that’s done’ there are those who are waiting for us to let down our guard. —Dorothy McIntyre”
dorothy Mcintyre is holding a girls’ basketball trophy from 1925. Behind her is a basketball uniform. Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 11
But she gathered key friends together, and the verdict was unanimous: You’re taking that job. “You got us into all this; you The friendly corner can’t back out now,” they told her. drugstore is not a “All of a sudden I was more afraid of saying no to my friends thing of the past! than I was of the job,” McIntyre said, smiling. Her friends vowed they’d have her back—and they did. SCHNEIDER When McIntyre started, there were few organized girls’ teams, and some still thought girls shouldn’t play team sports. DRUG “Somehow [the resistance] never bothered me,” McIntyre said. “We had a purpose. We kept to it.” She stayed at the MSHSL for We’re on the verge 32 years. of a Great American Among her fondest memories: the first girls’ state tournament— Renaissance! We are in track and field—in 1972. Over 600 girls participated, and each the ones we have been winner became a state record-holder—at least until 1973. waiting for. We can Landscape Alternatives Soon, more girls’ tournaments were added—tennis, volley- change society and - your native plant nursery and more ball, gymnastics. But basketball took until 1976, after a conten our world! tious struggle over whether girl hoopsters would play in the fall GREAT SELECTION or winter. Many powers-that-be argued that if girls played in TOP QUALITY PLANTS & SERVICE All our violence, against BEST PRICES! winter, like boys, the boys’ practice time would suffer. “Dorothy, women, immigrants, gays PLUS •PrairieGardens•RainGardens be reasonable,” they said. and lesbians will happen •RockGardens•Demonstrations “It’s a phrase I would hear a lot,” she noted. •HabitatTrail•Seminars again and again until we Validation •Kids’Activities come to grips with our 25316St.CroixTrail(Hwy95) McIntyre retired from the MSHSL in 2002. It wasn’t long history of slavery. ShaferMN55074 before she was drawn into a project her friend Marian Bemis (20milesnorthofStillwater) Johnson had under way: a history of the first era of Minnesota 3400 University Ave. SE, Mpls. ©2009LAI girls’ basketball, 1891-1942. McIntyre traveled the state, talking 612-379-7232•Fax:612-379-7233 with women who had played in the early 1900s. (651) 257-4460 M-F8:30-7Sat.8:30-6 “I started thinking, ‘Why didn’t we already know about this?’” [email protected] 1/4milewestofHwy.280,acrossfromKSTP www.landscapealternatives.com McIntyre said. “These women were all over Minnesota, hiding in plain sight. They’d put their old uniforms in hope chests and no one had asked them about this part of their lives.” Johnson’s interest had been stoked when, as a girl, she found a photo of her mother playing on a Faribault team in the 1920s. She wondered why there were no teams for her, in the 1940s. Co-ops:Co-ops: “Daughters of the Game” came out in 2005—a 396-page, self- published labor of love for Johnson and McIntyre. The people who brought you organic, “When you write women’s history down, it validates it,” McIntyre said. “That’s why we did it. Seeing women light up seasonal, local, and sustainable food. when they pulled out their old photos and uniforms was won- derful. “Almost all of these women are gone now, but the great part is we preserved their stories.” A second book by McIntyre and Johnson, “Two Rings: A Legacy of Hope,” this time fiction, was released in May 2012. Unlikely path It was perhaps an unlikely path for a farm girl who didn’t grow up playing sports. “’Red Rover’ was my sport,” McIntyre said with a chuckle. By ninth grade, though, she was playing softball. “I was the catcher,” she The profile appears in every recalled, “because I liked to be issue of the Minnesota in on every play.” Women’s Press. It reflects What challenges does the our founding principle and Still listening. Still serving. Still pioneering. future hold for girls’ sports? guiding philosophy that every Because co-ops build a better world. “The greatest danger to any- woman has a story. Readers thing women have worked to are welcome to submit sug- International Year change is apathy—compla- gestions for profile subjects. 2012 of Cooperatives cency,” McIntyre said. “Once Email your ideas to editor@ you say, ‘OK, that’s done’— womenspress.com. Everyone Welcome, Every Day. there are those who are waiting for us to let down our guard.” FFI: www.daughtersofthegame.com 2105 Lyndale Ave S | M-F 9-10 S & S 9-9 | www.wedge.coop 12 Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 tItLEIXFEatURE JULIEsEGER Beyond athletics: Title IX and equity 40 years later
Most people recognize Title IX, the federal statute barring sex discrimination in insti- tutions receiving public funds, for its legacy of advancing female athletics. Originally intended as a general education focus, this year we celebrate the law’s 40th anniver- sary, including its work more broadly to ensure that sex discrimination has no place in Minnesota’s communities, workplaces, and most directly, schools. Between Title IX’s enactment in 1972 and 2008, their success, according to a report from the Mass girls’ high school athletic participation increased Mutual Financial Group. Because of by an astounding 940 percent, according to the Because of Title IX, more young women are Women’s Sports Foundation. Girls who play high able to pursue careers in medicine, law and other Title IX, more school sports have higher self-esteem, are less high-skill science, technology, engineering and young women likely to get pregnant or drop out of school, andmath (STEM) fields traditionally dominated by are 41 percent more likely to graduate from col- men. Because women still remain vastly under- are able to lege within six years than non-athletes, reports the represented in STEM fields, Title IX could initiate pursue careers in Foundation and the NCAA (National Collegiate strides similar to those it made for girls in athlet- medicine, law and Athletic Association). Athletics teach invaluable ics. Imagine the potential for American innovation lessons in teamwork and responsibility: More than if, from the start of their educational careers, girls other high-skill four out of five executive businesswomen playedenjoyed equal encouragement and access to STEM - opportunities. science fields. sports and the majority of those who did say les sons learned on the playing field contributed to
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No one who knew me then would have predicted the turn my life would take in the spring of 1972 when I became a plaintiff in a lawsuit. Forty years ago, I was a high school sports. While there is no doubt these per- senior at St. Cloud Tech. My ambitions ceptions enjoyed widespread popularity at the start of that school year were rel- in 1972, they were wrong. atively modest: do well in my classes, I learned in a very personal way to be graduate and be accepted into a college wary of what is popular, because popu- I could afford to attend—ambitions I lar and principled—especially in matters shared with virtually all my high school of civil rights—do not always go hand in friends. In addition, I wanted to play hand. competitive tennis, but there were not 2. Do what you can do. Helen Keller girls’ athletic teams at Tech. said: “I am only one, but still I am one. Brenden v ISD 742, 477 F. 2d 1292, I cannot do everything, but still I can (Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1973), was do something; and because I cannot do one of the first lawsuits in the nation to everything, I will not refuse to do some- challenge rules that forbid girls from thing that I can do.” playing on boys’ athletic teams. It is often I have often lamented the fact that referred to as the lawsuit that helped my contributions to the world seem so “jump-start” the implementation of Title insignificant. There are no cancer cures IX. or technological breakthroughs on my The lawsuit transported my passion for resume. But, I have come to understand tennis from “on the court” to “in court.” that life presents each one of us with And, it taught me many important life unique opportunities, not all necessarily lessons—two of which I share here: newsworthy, but nonetheless extremely I learned in a very 1. Don’t be afraid to question authority. worthwhile. Being in a position to help personal way to be wary My experience with the lawsuit taught grow opportunities for girls in athletics me that it is important to take time to was a totally unexpected gift in my life. of what is popular, examine rules and traditions to make cer- And, it has made me excited and vigilant because popular and tain they continue to make sense. about finding other “somethings I can The people in power in 1972 said a girl do” as I move forward. principled—especially in on a boys’ tennis team was ill advised. Peg Brenden is a compensation judge matters of civil rights— Authorities predicted I would get hurt. with the Minnesota State Office of do not always go They argued the boys I played with and Administrative Hearings. She lives in against would suffer psychological dam- St. Paul. hand in hand. age. They suggested my playing with the boys would hurt the growth of oppor- tunities for other girls to participate in
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When Mary Jo Kane came to the University of Minnesota in 1989 she was one of a handful of people nationally conducting research on the social science of female athletes and the impact of Title IX. A few years later, when a donation of $1 million was given to the University by Dorothy McNeill Tucker for developing a research center, Kane jumped at the opportunity. “What we needed was some- thing inside of higher education that took seriously the study of how sports and physical activity impacted girls and women,” Kane said. She proposed developing a center to deepen this research.
COURTESY OF THE TUCKER CENTER COURTESY The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport was launched at the University in 1993. Its founder and director, Kane, is outspoken about the impact of Title IX—the 1972 landmark legislation giving equal opportunities in education to girls and women. She spoke recently with the Minnesota Women’s Press about some of the myths and stereotypes and unintended consequences of Title IX. Mary Jo Kane
Minnesota Women’s Press: People MJK: Title IX is blamed for hurting men’s [either]. Football generates enormous think “sports” when the hear “Title sports. But with respect to occupational sums of money, but it is an extremely IX” but it’s more than that, right? employment, it’s been a boon to men. expensive sport. Mary Jo Kane: Title IX is part of the Because of Title IX, men now have two So, the question becomes not whether Education Amendments Act, which is career tracks: They can go into men’s or not football is revenue generating but civil rights legislation. Education is the athletics or women’s athletics. Prior to it is whether or not it is profit making. It broader issue of Title IX, but I think peo- Title IX, 90+ percent of all head coaches may be true that the football team gen- ple don’t understand this. Today, women in women’s athletics were female. Today, erated $2 million last year, but if it cost are the primary percentage of students nationwide, it’s only about 43 percent. $3 million, it does not pay for itself—let on campuses. Women are the predomi- Women have not made similar inroads alone everybody else. nant percentage of people getting all into men’s athletics. They represent only [Another stereotype we’re told is] degrees, whether undergrad, master’s or about 2 percent of all head coaching posi- whether we like it or not, college sports advanced degrees. This was not the case tions [of male sports’ teams], and rarely have become a big time economic engine, pre-Title IX. in a team sport like hockey, football or so get used to this new corporate model But, it’s fair to say that Title IX has had basketball. where profit rules the day. its greatest impact—certainly it’s most Another myth is that college football But the logical extention of this line of visible impact—in athletics. When you makes so much money it not only pays thinking is that unless an extracurricular start with zero … sports have exploded for itself but for all other sports, includ- activity makes money, or at the very least in respect to [girls and women’s] partici- ing women’s sports. People ask, “Why breaks even, the school or university pation. should we give money and attention to shouldn’t offer it. Does that mean that we women’s sports since they don’t pay for shouldn’t have a band, that we shouldn’t MWP: What are some of the myths or themselves?” have cheerleading? Does that mean we stereotypes surrounding Title IX? The majority of men’s sports don’t shouldn’t have student government or make money or pay for themselves debate teams? Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 19
This is an [economic] pressure that athletes? But with proportionality, the the most expedient and cost-effective was put on women’s sports that was key question to ask is what’s the gen- thing to do. An AD can say, “Don’t look never put on men’s sports or any other der ratio (or proportion) of a school’s at me. Title IX made me do it.” extracurricular activity, prior to the pas- undergraduate population? That’s easy Politically, if you’re an athletic direc- sage of Title IX. to measure. So courts have relied on tor, going after football puts your job proportionality, versus the other two and career in jeopardy. So the reality is MWP: Are there other stereotypes? prongs, to determine if a school is in that ADs say to themselves, “I feel ter- MJK: The biggest and the most harm- compliance. If 53 percent of the school’s rible about dropping men’s tennis, but I ful stereotype is that Title IX is a flawedundergraduate population is female, don’t have to add a woman’s sport, and piece of legislation that forces schools to are female student athletes at that same I don’t have to go after football.” drop men’s sports. school receiving 53 percent (within 5 I have great empathy for athletic The Office of Civil Rights oversees percent) of the school’s athletics budget? directors. It is not easy to drop a sport. whether a school is in compliance and It is agonizing. The majority of athletic MWP: How does that play out? uses a three-pronged test to do so. One directors want to do the right thing. of three criteria has to be met: Is the MJK: When you have a situation where They are in a very difficult spot. That school meeting the interests and abili- an athletic director is told [the school is] doesn’t mean, however, that Title IX ties of the underserved population? Is not in compliance, they typically have forced them to drop a men’s sport in there a history of continuing expansion three options: order to be in compliance. in meeting its obligation to female ath- 1. add a women’s sport with $600,000– There’s nothing in the law, either in letes? And then the most controversial, $800,000 a year of recurring expense; terms of the technical aspects or in the the issue of proportionality, which crit- 2. drop a men’s nonrevenue sport, like spirit or letter of the law, that says in ics of Title IX claim is based on an affir- golf or baseball ... and save $600,000– order to comply you must drop men’s mative action quota system. $800,000 of recurring savings, sports, but in terms of the reality, that Of the three compliance options, or is what happens. Far too often, Title IX proportionality is the easiest to mea- 3. go to football and tell them they becomes a convenient scapegoat. sure. How do you measure a history of have to reduce the size of their roster or FFi: www.tuckercenter.org continuing expansion? Three sports in recruiting budget. I don’t know an ath-
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Linda Roberts, left, and Lisa Lissimore today and in 1976 as St. Paul Central High School state champions. Game ball On basketball courts in St. Paul, cousins and sisters capitalized on Title IX by Jennifer Thaney Basketball standout Linda Roberts wasn’t always one of the biggest stars of the game. Staff at the park where she picked up a ball for the first time as a 12-year-old joked that she couldn’t dribble and chew gum at the same time.
Roberts’ younger cousin, Lisa Lissimore, mas- through their careers, Roberts as director of special tered dribbling right away. However Lissimore, who events and community outreach for the University started playing at about the same time as Roberts, of Minnesota’s athletics department and Lissimore as recalled that her skinny-girl self couldn’t shoot the associate director of the MSHSL. ball very well. For these two cousins, winning was the easy part. It wasn’t long before both Roberts and Lissimore Figuring out who to credit is harder. overcame their challenges and developed into star “Lisa’s going to tell you that she made me who I athletes who would lead their Central High School am,” quipped Roberts, who played center and was team to victory in 1976 at the first girls’ state tourna- often fed the ball by point guard Lissimore. “But ment sponsored by the Minnesota State High School if she wouldn’t have missed [shots] with the ball, I League (MSHSL). Both remain connected to the game wouldn’t have gotten the rebound.” Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012 21 Girls in my age group are well aware of Title IX. We know that it E-News “gave us the opportunity to play sports and if we didn’t have it Receive Minnesota we wouldn’t be where we are today. —Ashley Ellis-Milan Women’s Press’ ” twice-a-month Neither girl had family members who played finished her basketball career after a year-long e-letter! basketball; rather, it was friends who influenced stint with the Gophers. them. Lissimore had recently moved to Hague Luckily for both the Central Minutemen Sign up today @ Avenue when she started going to Oxford play- and the Golden Gophers, the teams had not www. ground in St. Paul and convinced her mother to seen the last of this talented family. Lissimore’s womenspress.com let her play flag football on the girls’ team. younger sister, Roxanne Lissimore, played for “That was the start of my athletic career,” Central and was on the state championship recalled Lissimore, who later played softball, team in 1979. The high school was also home track and broomball. By the time she attended to younger cousin, Ashley Ellis-Milan, who Ramsey Junior High, however, she narrowed graduated in 2005 and made a name for herself her focus to basketball. as a starting center/forward for the U of M. The two-year team captain finished fifth on the school’s all-time rebounding list with 860 and ranked 12th in career scoring with 1,281 points. Ellis-Milan literally followed in her family’s footsteps when, at age 11, she learned how to play while attending the Shooting Stars bas- ketball clinic run by Roberts and Lissimore. For the last two years she has been playing professional
COURTESY OF ASHLEY ELLIS-MILAN OF ASHLEY COURTESY basketball in Europe. “My mom decided to put me in the camp because she thought it would be good for me because I was so tall and the camp was run by family members,” wrote Ellis- Milan in an email from Germany. “My mom influenced me to play. Like her family members, Ashley Ellis-Milan, left, played for St. Paul She always kept me in the sport Central. Like Linda Roberts, she wore the No. 21 as a University of when I was young and I grew Minnesota Gopher. She now plays professional basketball in Europe. to love the game and committed myself to the sport.” A single-sport athlete, Roberts’ dedication to Ellis-Milan also credits Title IX, an amend- basketball was clear. “I loved the game,” she ment to the U.S. Constitution enacted in 1972 said. “I became addicted to it.” that leveled the playing field for girls and boys She also became a force to be reckoned with. in education and athletics. “Girls in my age “Linda turned out to be one of the best basket- group are well aware of Title IX,” Ellis-Milan YWCA of Minneapolis ball players this state has ever seen,” stated said. “We know that it gave us the opportu- Fifth Annual Lissimore. Even though she may be biased,nity to play sports and if we didn’t have it we Women’s Triathlon there are statistics to back up Lissimore’s claim.wouldn’t be where we are today.” Sunday, August 12, 2012 Roberts still holds 11 University of Minnesota Lisa Lissimore indicated there is still work to Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota records, including 1,413 career rebounds dur- be done to achieve a truly level playing field, www.ywcampls.org/womenstri ing her tenure with the Golden Gophers from including hiring more women coaches and ath- 1977-1981. She ranks fourth in all-time scoring. letic administrators. Clearing up the misper- She has been inducted into the Hall of Fame ception that Title IX is to blame for cuts to at Central High School, the MSHSL and the men’s athletic programs is also important, she University of Minnesota. In 2006, the Gophers said. “While we have come a long way, schools retired her jersey, No. 21. must closely monitor their athletic programs to Lissimore is a Hall of Famer herself, having make sure they meet the interests and abilities been inducted at both Central High School and of all their students.” Grand View College in Des Moines, where she The Power to Soar TM 22 Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012
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From her studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., Samantha French paints images of water, often reminis- cent of her childhood years in the lakes area of northern Minnesota. Growing up in Nisswa, French literally spent her summers in the lakes. “It felt like you had been waiting a lifetime to dive in,” she said of waiting for endless winters to end.
French dove into painting as a stu- nostalgia with her lake settings. She cap- dent at Minneapolis College of Art and tures underwater images with her cam- Design (MCAD). One of her first paint- era to work with, as well. ings was developed from a photograph “There’s not a lot going on in the paint- of her mother, aunt and her own 1-year- ing [on the cover], it’s just the swimmer old self at the beach. This set the course and the water,” French said. “When I of her artwork today: water themes. first started with the underwater series, “Water is so universal,” French said. it was about conveying movement and “People can see themselves in the work. the peace, cancelling everything else out, It’s tranquil, calming. Painting is my just being in the water.” catharsis. It reminds me of being a kid, FFI: www.samanthafrench.com that feeling of floating on a summer day, nothing else around but you and the Every painting water.” After graduating from MCAD in 2005, “leads to another. French traveled to Italy, visited New York City and returned to Nisswa for a There’s always some- time. She moved to Brooklyn five years ago. She is a full-time painter, with a stu- thing I want to clarify dio in the Bushwick neighborhood. She in the next one. has painted over 200 above and under- water scenes in this series. I keep challenging “You can tell that I’ve been discon- nected a bit from the nature of north- myself. ern Minnesota,” she said of her current paintings that bring in more swimming —Samantha French” pool scenes than northern lakes. “That “Mom and Anita 1984” was the first in French’s has a lot to do with logistics. I’m not series of water paintings. there anymore.” “Underwater Descend,” the painting on the June magazine cover, is from ear- IFYOUGO: lier in her career. “Every painting leads What: “Sea Change” paintings by Samantha French to another. There’s always something Where: Soo Visual Arts Center, I want to clarify in the next one. I keep 2638 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis challenging myself,” she said. She often When: June 2–July 7 works from family photographs, blend- opening reception, Sat., June 2, 6-9 p.m. ing themes of genealogy and a sense of FFi: www.soovac.org or 612-871-2263 26 Minnesota Women’s Press, June 2012
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I was earning my living writing nov- that. Their best story. My goal was to els for middle schoolers and young have a collection that would be so good adults. I was known for taking on hard from writers who were so well known topics: sexual molestation, mental ill- that it couldn’t be ignored. And that’s ness, abandonment, death. I wrote how “Am I Blue? Coming Out from the with honesty and compassion, and I Silence” was born. was proud of my reputation as a truth- The book got starred reviews and teller. Nonetheless, on a topic central to awards. Even more important, it sold, own my deepest truth, I had remained opening the door for publishers to risk silent. the topic again. No one was “outed” I am a lesbian. I am now and was except me as the editor, and that was then entirely open in my personal life. a choice I had made very intentionally. No book that has But as a children’s author I remained And by the way, my career survived. closeted. Coming Has the world changed for children’s emerged from my out would have writers since then? career has made been professional Consider this. I have recently con- suicide. Everyone tributed an essay to a book called “The me more proud knew that was so. Letter Q.” It is a collection of letters by And yet, for lack 64 openly lesbian or gay writers for than “Am I Blue? of information young people, each one offering advice Coming Out from and reassurance to his or her younger self, each one about their sexual- speaking out from the silence that has the Silence.” ity, everyone also so long held young lives hostage. knew that young “Am I Blue?” was only one of many people were com- forces that created this change, of mitting a much course. But no book that has emerged more literal kind of from my career has made me more suicide. Or living proud. in fear and shame. Does it matter whether children’s How could I go on conspiring to writers can be honest about their sexu- keep that kind of silence? ality? If books matter, if kids matter, it My first thought was to go to other does. writers in my field whom I knew to Marion Dane Bauer is the author of be lesbian or gay and say, “Come out over 80 books. Her latest, a novel in with me. Let’s do a book together.” But verse, “Little Dog, Lost,” and a picture I couldn’t do that. No one has the right book, “Dinosaur Thunder” were re- to ask another person to take such a leased on May. 1. She lives in St. Paul. risk. So I took a different tack. www.mariondanebauer.com I approached some of the best writers I knew without regard to their sexual- ity and asked them to write a story that included a lesbian or gay character. 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1987: Wells Fargo includes “sexual orientation” in nondiscrimination 1992: stagecoach makes first statements appearance at LA Pride festival, PRIDE team member network established
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2004: “Gender identity/ expression” added to non- 2009 discrimination policy; 2009: Partnered with College of first 100% on HRC’s Financial Planning to create the new Corporate Equality Accredited Domestic Partnership Index received Advisor™ or ADPA™ program
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2010: Became lead sponsor of GLSEN’s Safe Space Campaign 2012: 25-year anniversary of adding sexual orientation to non-discrimination clause 2012
25 years ago, Wells Fargo made a commitment to create an inclusive workplace environment for LGBT team members. Since then, we have achieved several key milestones and look forward to many more over the next quarter-century.
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