Girls & Women Rock:
Celebrating 35 Years of Sport & Title IX
Presented by McDonald Hopkins
March 28-31, 2007
In the days leading up to the NCAA Women's Final Four, Cleveland served as the site for an unprecedented gathering of public policy makers, legal experts, students, and scholars from around the world when it played host to the Girls and Women Rock: Celebrating 35 Years of Sport and Title IX Conference. Over the span of four days, more than 260 conference attendees had a chance to consider the enormity of the impact Title IX has had in creating a massive shift in societal attitudes toward girls and women in sport. The conference program featured 130 presentations and panels addressing an array of topics from girls and trash talking to equity for female coaches in the athletic workplace to the impact of the legislation on minority girls and women in sport to the status of girls and women in sport internationally. For more information about what happened at the conference, click on the links to the abstracts, presentations, program, and syllabus to the right.
Keynote Speakers
Birch Bayh, Partner, Venable, LLP; U.S. Senator (D-IN, 1963-1981); leading civil rights advocate
Martha Burk, Recent Past Chair, National Council of Women’s Organizations
Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center
Bernice Sandler, Senior Scholar at the Women’s Research and Education Institute in Washington, D.C.
Invited Speakers
Vivian Acosta, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College
Alpha Alexander, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Lane College
Ketra Armstrong, Ph.D., President, National Association for Girls & Women in Sport
Deborah Brake, J.D., Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Christine Brennan, USA Today Columnist and women's sports advocate
Linda Carpenter, Ph.D., J.D., Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College
Annie Clement, Professor, St. Leo University
Doris Corbett, Ph.D., Professor, Howard University
Karen Doering, J.D., National Center for Lesbian Rights
Christine Grant, Director of Women's Athletics (Ret.), University of Iowa
Linda Greene, J.D., Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Tina Sloan Green, Executive Director of the Black Women in Sport Foundation
Donna Lopiano, Ph.D., Executive Director, Women’s Sports Foundation
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, J.D., Associate Professor, Florida Coastal College of Law
Lisa Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, American Association of University Women
Pamela Noakes, Executive Director, National Association for Girls & Women in Sport
Peg Pennepacker, Assistant Principal and Athletic Director, Spring Mountain High School
Kathy Rodgers, President, Legal Momentum
Steven H. Steinglass, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Judith Sweet, Consultant, Title IX and Gender Equity Strategies
Kim Yuracko, Associate Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Selected List of Special Events & Performances
You've Come a Long Way, Baby: A Conversation with Billie Jean King, City Club of Cleveland Friday Forum
Jane Curry’s One Woman Show Entitled "Nice Girls Don’t Sweat"
Title IX Birthday Hoopla with special guest Billie Jean King
Title IX Subcommittee - 2007 NCAA Women's Final Four Local Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D. Professor & Graduate Chair, Department of Sport Management & Media, Ithaca College
Colette Gibbons, Attorney at Law, Schottenstein, Zox, & Dunn, Co., L.P.A.
Paula Grooms, Consultant
Committee Members
Barbara Anne Ferris, Founder, International Women's Democracy Center
David Gilbert, President & CEO, Greater Cleveland Sports Commission
Vikki Krane, Ph.D., Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
Alice Khol, Associate Director of Athletics, Cleveland State University
Janet Parks, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor in Human Movement, Sport & Leisure Studies, Bowling Green
Lauren Steiner, Manager of Foundation Relations, Achievement Centers for Children
Rachael Stentz-Baugher, Director of Programs, Greater Cleveland Sports Commission
Susan Ziegler, Ph.D., Professor, Sports Psychology/Performance Enhancement, Cleveland State University
Partner Organizations
American Association of University Women - AAUW
Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology - AAASP
Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education - AGELE
Business and Professional Women/USA
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Education - CAAWS
Feminist Majority Foundation
Girl Scouts of the USA
Girls, Incorporated
International Working Group on Women and Sport - IWG
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Legal Momentum
Ms. Magazine
Myra Sadker Advocates for Gender Equity
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport - NAGWS
National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators - NACWAA
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Council of Women's Organizations
National Federation of State High School Associations - NFHS
North American Society for Sport Management - NASSM
North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity - NASPSPA
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport - NASSS
SaveTitleIX.com
Sociologist for Women in Society
Sport Information Resource Centre - SIRC
Sport and Recreation Law Association - SRLA
The Sport Psychologist
Women's National Basketball Association - WNBA
Women's Sports Foundation - WSF
Title IX Conference Schedule
Title IX conference presentations