A survey was taken in seven participating school-to-work regions in Ohio to find out what students, teachers, parents, and employers thought about sex equity issues. Participants included 6,173 9th-12th grade students (3,316 girls and 2,857 boys), 760 teachers, 743 parents, and 230 employers. Findings included the following: (1) up to 69 percent…

Educators need to be aware of sex discrimination in their schools and of the legislation that prohibits it, because it entails costs, liabilities, impact, and responsibilities for every educator. The obvious and direct costs are attorney fees, awarded damages, and settlement costs. Other, less obvious costs are unfavorable publicity, erosion of a…

This newsletter includes five articles on gender equity and related issues in education, with particular reference to the education of Hispanic girls. "IDRA's MIJA Program Expands" (Aurora Yanez-Perez) describes a program for sixth-grade Hispanic girls that promotes awareness of science- and math-related careers, provides training in…

This newsletter contains six articles on issues of gender equity for Chicanas and other women. "Recognizing Chicana Contributions: Cultural History & Gender Equity on the Line" (Mikki Symonds) discusses the invisibility of Mexican Americans in general and of Chicanas in particular in U.S. history books, school curricula, and pop…

These four newsletter issues focus on topics of interest to female students, faculty, and administrators in higher education. Each issue contains many brief reports on events, news, litigation, legislation, resources, and campus programs on sexual harassment, sexual assault, working in academe and elsewhere, women overseas, women's studies, and…

Four issues of a quarterly newsletter address programs, issues, and concerns of women students, faculty and administrators in higher education. Each issue contains many brief reports on events, news, litigation, legislation, and campus programs on the following topics: sexual harassment, working in academe, news from around the campus, sexual…

This quarterly newsletter provides information about the programs, issues, and concerns of women students, faculty, and administrators in higher education. Each of these four issues (comprising a single year) presents brief summaries of new items or reports in regularly appearing sections covering campus news, the workplace, sexual harassment,…

This quarterly newsletter provides information about the programs, issues, and concerns, of women students, faculty, and administrators in higher education. Each of the four issues (comprising one year's worth) has several regularly appearing sections that present brief news summaries and reports covering topics such as working in academe and…

News concerning developments at colleges and universities that affect women is presented, along with an interview with the Executive Director of the Project on the Status and Education of Women, Bernice R. Sandler, regarding the project's major accomplishments and activities over the past 11 years and insights into the changing status of women at…

"Title IX Line" is a periodic publication of The Center for Sex Equity in Schools, a desegregation assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education pursuant to Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Each issue is devoted to a separate topic. This compilation of 9 sequential issues treats the follwoing themes: (1) vocational…