Does your school comply with Title IX on varsity athletics?(Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics: How it All Works--In Plain English)(Book Review)

For a woman working in athletics administration, standing up for gender equity can be dangerous. She may know that some of her department's practices are a bit shaky and be pretty sure a few are over the edge, but what's to prevent a kill-the-messenger reaction?

Now there's a way to identify any potential inequities internally, which can reduce the school's liability--and save it from possible lawsuits, bad PR and an Office for Civil Rights investigation--without inviting retaliation from within.

A new self-evaluation manual is the neutral third-party that can help you determine exactly where your school is doing fine and help you identify areas where you could be in trouble. It is called Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics: How it All Works--In Plain English.

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"This definitive and unique reference is the one-stop-shopping encyclopedia for Title IX application to intercollegiate athletics, user-friendly, in easy-to-read text," the manual's announcement explains.

The comprehensive 850-page manual/workbook is designed to serve athletics administrators, college and university counsel and education officials.

For 15 years author Valerie M. Bonnette conducted investigations for the Office for Civil Rights and wrote its Title IX Investigator's Manual in 1990, leaving in 1994 to start her own business called Good Sports, Inc.