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When Pemberton joined Oregon's Linfield College as assistant athletic director for women's sports in 1989, she had never heard of Title IX, a 1972 constitutional amendment prohibiting the discrimination between men and women in the allotment of funds for education. But Title IX would change her life. She soon discovered that women's sports at Linfield were treated anything but equally to men's, even to the point that women athletes had to pay for their own uniforms. Pemberton's fight to make her school comply with the law would alienate her from almost all her colleagues and would make her, against her will, a celebrity. This precise recounting of Pemberton's legal battle makes an excellent case study, but it doesn't address the larger questions that Title IX has prompted: specifically, whether the legislation, which never specifically mentions sports, was meant to be used in the ways it is being used today. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Contrary to rumors on campus and in the local press, Cynthia Pemberton did not set out in 1992 to destroy the long-honored football team of Linfield College, a small liberal arts school in Oregon. Instead, the Assistant Athletic Director for Women's Sports wanted to make athletic opportunities equally available to both women and men-simply to make the college comply with the law. Her six-year crusade for full implementation of Title IX made headlines across the nation. Here is Pemberton's autobiographical account of what would become the ordeal of her life.
When Pemberton first arrived at Linfield in 1989, she accepted the logic that the more lucrative men's sports earned male players preferential treatment. Men's teams were outfitted at the college's expense, but Pemberton began noticing that the women often had to buy their own equipment and shape their practice and facility use schedules around the men's sports. Also, scant resources were available for the recruiting and coaching of women athletes. It became clear that their success would always be limited unless policies changed.
The author recounts her steps in prodding Linfield to gender awareness and then to justice. For six years, Pemberton endured harassment from her supervisor, attempts to derail her professional development, and smear campaigns in local newspapers, while her supporters on campus faced intimidation. She had come to the brink of financial ruin and psychological exhaustion by the time her lawsuit against the college was settled.
The struggle for gender equity in sport is far from over, but Pemberton leaves a legacy for women athletes, their coaches, and school administrators. Her book conveys bold determination and is rich with insights into the workings of the legal system and academic
When Pemberton joined Oregon's Linfield College as assistant athletic director for women's sports in 1989, she had never heard of Title IX, a 1972 constitutional amendment prohibiting the discrimination between men and women in the allotment of funds for education. But Title IX would change her life. She soon discovered that women's sports at Linfield were treated anything but equally to men's, even to the point that women athletes had to pay for their own uniforms. Pemberton's fight to make her school comply with the law would alienate her from almost all her colleagues and would make her, against her will, a celebrity. This precise recounting of Pemberton's legal battle makes an excellent case study, but it doesn't address the larger questions that Title IX has prompted: specifically, whether the legislation, which never specifically mentions sports, was meant to be used in the ways it is being used today. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Contrary to rumors on campus and in the local press, Cynthia Pemberton did not set out in 1992 to destroy the long-honored football team of Linfield College, a small liberal arts school in Oregon. Instead, the Assistant Athletic Director for Women's Sports wanted to make athletic opportunities equally available to both women and men-simply to make the college comply with the law. Her six-year crusade for full implementation of Title IX made headlines across the nation. Here is Pemberton's autobiographical account of what would become the ordeal of her life.
When Pemberton first arrived at Linfield in 1989, she accepted the logic that the more lucrative men's sports earned male players preferential treatment. Men's teams were outfitted at the college's expense, but Pemberton began noticing that the women often had to buy their own equipment and shape their practice and facility use schedules around the men's sports. Also, scant resources were available for the recruiting and coaching of women athletes. It became clear that their success would always be limited unless policies changed.
The author recounts her steps in prodding Linfield to gender awareness and then to justice. For six years, Pemberton endured harassment from her supervisor, attempts to derail her professional development, and smear campaigns in local newspapers, while her supporters on campus faced intimidation. She had come to the brink of financial ruin and psychological exhaustion by the time her lawsuit against the college was settled.
The struggle for gender equity in sport is far from over, but Pemberton leaves a legacy for women athletes, their coaches, and school administrators. Her book conveys bold determination and is rich with insights into the workings of the legal system and academic