This is the 7th year of the Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History. This year’s conference features a combination of recorded conferences and live panels celebrating 50 years of Title IX.
Soteria Solutions is thrilled that Jane Stapleton, President and Co-Founder of Soteria Solutions will be part of this year’s conference discussing prevention strategies and the goals of bystander intervention.
Billie Jean King & Jessica Luther: Keynote Conversation
Featuring: Billie Jean King, Jessica Luther (moderator)
Tennis legend Billie Jean King has campaigned tirelessly for gender equity in sports throughout her entire career, including pushing for the passage and implementation of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment Acts prohibiting sex discrimination in federal education programs. In this wide-ranging keynote conversation with journalist Jessica W. Luther, King discusses her early experiences as an athlete in a male-dominated sport, her leadership in creating women’s professional tennis and pushing for pay parity–including the infamous Battle of the Sexes against Bobby Riggs in 1973–and her thoughts on the continuing legacy of Title IX today.
Creating Title IX: Activists’ Fight for Equal Education
Featuring: Margaret Dunkle, Marcia Greenberger, Holly Knox, Sherry Boschert (moderator)
Building on the grassroots movements for women’s liberation in the 1960s, women turned to Congress to address the rampant sex discrimination embedded in American educational institutions. Passing Title IX in 1972 was an enormous victory, but the battle was just beginning: Debates soon erupted over how to implement and enforce the bill and how to urge institutions to open their doors further. This panel brings together activists who were central to this fight and who created a legislative and legal framework for equality that persists to this day.
Watch Margaret Dunkle, the first Chair of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Marcia Greenberger, founder co-president emerita of the National Women’s Law Center, and Holly Knox, founder and director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER) in conversation with Sherry Boschert, journalist and author of 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.