ABSTRACT
The work of transforming colleges into supportive and equitable spaces for pregnant, parenting, and female students is a shared responsibility that must take place both on-campus and in the larger community. This chapter provides a brief history of Title IX as it has been traditionally understood and implemented by a variety of agents, including scholars, administrators, legislators, and advocacy groups. A brief review of that history reveals omissions and absences in the applications of Title IX that have resulted in the law primarily being understood as a means of redressing inequities in athletics, sexual harassment, and assault in academic institutions. More recent interpretations of Title IX reveal how intersectional perspectives have shaped our understanding of the transformative power of Title IX in acknowledging the needs of many marginalized student populations, including pregnant and parenting students. The latter part of this chapter explores how government agencies and offices, campus administrators and faculty, social service agencies, labor unions, and non-profits can effectively serve as sources and sites of “organizational brokerage.” These sources and sites can and should collectively engage in the work of providing Title IX information and resources that will protect the rights of historically marginalized groups on college campuses.
