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Thursday, July 17, 2008

And don't forget, you can visit the Title IX blog any time you want. It's good for you -- like broccli, laughing, and playing with a four-year-old.

The latest installement: Professor Brake on Discrimination Against Pregnant Athletes.

Professor Deborah Brake's article "The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX" in the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender examines the legal protection for athletes who become pregnant during their college careers.

Until very recently, this issue had been entirely off the radar screen of colleges and universities, OCR, and the NCAA, despite clear regulatory language prohibiting such discrimination. Brake devotes careful attention to the question why discrimination against pregnant athletes -- often experienced as a scholarship revocation rather than medical redshirt status -- was invisible for so long.