Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX

The remarkable story of the women who defined sexual harassment as unlawful sex discrimination under Title IX

When the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual harassment in schools. Title IX is the civil rights law that prohibits education programs from discriminating “on the basis of sex.” At the time, however, the term “sexual harassment” was not yet in use; this kind of misconduct was simply acc...