37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
Title IXs first thirty-seven words

By prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, the 1972 legislation popularly known as Title IX profoundly changed the lives of women and girls in the United States, accelerating a movement for equal education in classrooms, on sports fields, and in all of campus life.

37 Words is the story of Title IX. Filled with rich charactersfrom Bernice Resnick Sandler, an early organizer for the law, to her trans grandchildthe story of Title IX is a legislative and legal drama with conflicts over regulations and challenges to the law. Its also a human story about women denied opportunities, students struggling for an education free from sexual harassment, and activists defying sexist discrimination. These intersecting narratives of women seeking an education, playing sports, and wanting protection from sexual harassment and assault map gains and setbacks for feminism in the last fifty years and show how some women benefit more than others. Award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert beautifully explores the gripping history of Title IX through the gutsy people behind it.

In the tradition of the acclaimed documentary Shes Beautiful When Shes Angry, 37 Words offers a crucial playbook for anyone who wants to understand how we got here and who is horrified by current attacks on womens rights.