Title IX

Title: Title IX
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 687 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

Title IX

In the beginning of the 1970s, there was an enormously growing frustration among the female athletes in the United States. A majority of both public schools and universities did not offer any type of competitive athletic programs for females. Most didn’t even go as far as having intramural athletics for its female athletes. Urban myths at the time suggested that women should not play sports. They were instead intended to take on the role …showed first 75 words of 687 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 687 total…Congress passed the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act which mandates colleges and universities to release detailed financial data on the operation of men’s and women’s sports programs (61). This give colleges a disadvantage in trying to claim that they cannot improve equality due to money restraints. Unfortunately there are many accounting tricks to get around this. Title IX has been controversial since its conception and seems that it will continue to in the future.

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