Enacted at a particular moment in history, Title IX reflected and codified certain gender and cultural biases even as it created new opportunities. The law provided both access and limitations at a time when access was most prized. This presentation, by Laura Pappano, will explain how we can now recognize and overcome the ingrained practices that have become barriers to the advancement of women’s sports.

Laura Pappano is an award-winning journalist, author, and blogger who writes about education, and gender-related sport issues. Author of Inside School Turnarounds (2010), The Connection Gap (2001), and co-author of Playing With the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sport (2008), Laura regularly writes for The New York Times and the Harvard Education Letter. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, and other publications. She is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, leads the Women’s Sport Leadership Project, and is founder and editor of the FairGameNews.com blog.