Have you noticed the increase this spring in news stories, books, podcasts, and tv programming celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23? I hope one of the many stories has caught your attention.

If you are looking for an interesting way to learn more about how Title IX has changed the lives of girls and women, check out ESPN’s schedule. They have a full slate of women’s sports and documentaries running this month.

I am especially looking forward to the program airing June 15. 30 for 30: “Dream On,” is a three-hour documentary about the 1996 women’s Olympic basketball team. In my book, I  describe seeing that team win the gold medal in Atlanta. It was an incredible experience, and now I’m interested to learn about the challenges that the team and the coaches had to overcome to achieve that success. The success that was crucial to the launch of the WNBA later that year.

Whether you watch live or record something for a rainy day, I hope you check out one of these programs. We tend to take for granted the progress that has been made and the opportunities girls and women have today that did not exist while I was growing up. And most of us know very little about the struggle it took to get here.

This month we have many opportunities to learn. 

Interested in Title IX or women in sports topics?

• Watch some of the ESPN Fifty/50 Month Programming

• Check out my booklist on my Bookshop.org storefront: Books about women and girls in sport

• Read more Lessons from the Driveway about Girls’ and Women in Sport

• Or learn more about my own story: 50 Years in the Bleachers—What modern sports parents can learn about Title IX