In case of a male coach, court adds teeth to gender-bias law; High court rules that Title IX, which shields girls' teams from discrimination, also protects whistleblowers from retaliation.(USA) From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: March 30, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON -- A man who lost his coaching job after complaining that his girls' high school basketball team was being treated like second-class citizens may claim the protections of a 1972 gender-bias law to get his job back.

Coach Roderick Jackson sued the Birmingham, Ala., Board of Education, saying the school district had violated Title IX in taking retaliatory action against him. A federal...