Gender Equity Resource Providers
Gender equity resource providers include researchers, developers, and disseminators of information, tools, instructional materials, and technical assistance. They may provide these resources as individuals or through organizations. Title IX coordinators, especially those who are just starting this work, and many Title IX activists and grass roots equity allies will need easy access to high quality research-based gender equity resources.
Both the Title IX gender equity coordinators and their equity allies will need accurate and effective research based information and materials to help them advance gender equity. At the beginning of 2003 we lost a key funded component of the already emaciated gender equity infrastructure when t he Department of Education, despite letters from equity organizations and leaders, chose to spend the money previously used to support the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center , on a study of single-sex schools.
To rebuild this part of the infrastructure, the Network hopes to develop a coordinated web-based resource dissemination system to make it easier for all Network participants to obtain electronic resources and to connect with other organizations and individuals with similar equity goals.
Fortunately, many equity allies develop and post their own resources on their web sites. However, the Network is planning a strategy where some organizations will select, organize, and post high quality resources from many sources in a specific area of expertise (such as athletics or vocational education) so gender equity resource users can easily find what best meets their needs. The coordination of web-based gender equity resources will also involve helping the Network participants obtain links to high quality web sites, listservs, e-newsletters, and key electronic documents focusing on gender equity and education. To help with this, we are developing our Education Equity Resource Links.
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