ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the political consciousness and organizational behavior of Title IX coordinators employed consecutively from 1983 to 2003 in one school district. In closely examining the work and political consciousness of Title IX officers charged with implementing gender equity law, it illustrates the dynamic way in which laws are brought to life by different people charged with implementing them and the way these individuals' political consciousness can change in the process of doing this work. In the mid-1970s, a couple of years after the passage of Title IX, Urban School District assigned a high-ranking white man in its management systems office the task of administering the law. The chapter discusses the significance of paying more attention to organizational hie and government administrators as a means of better understanding the impact of a state-focused, reform-based, social change agenda that has been so central to feminist and other contemporary movements.
