On June 23, 1972, Title IX was signed into law — ensuring equal opportunity and prohibiting discrimination in education and athletics based on gender or sexual orientation. This monumental bill was the first major step towards an equal playing field for women. 50 years later, there is still work to be done, but Sporting News celebrates the monumental bill that changed the game.
Narrated by Riley Trujillo.
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Dawg y’all want superiority not equality stopped a cap. But it’s impossible men and women will never biologically be equal no matter how hard you try.
Title IX is racist, sexist, and yet another example of supposed “good intent” verses destructive outcome. A. The government almost always screws things up. Medicare and Medicaid were to “give access to health to all”. Instead, it is fraught with corruption and is the sole cause of high cost of health care. The same with Title IX. It was not supposed to take away from men’s sports. Yea, right. It has killed men’s sports by the dozens including a lot of men’s swimming and diving, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing, etc. etc. etc. B. Men’s sports grew organically. As interest, OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, grew, men’s sports grew. Women’s “sports” had to immediately get the same number of scholarships as men’s sports got. So, schools like the University of Michigan began women’s crew offering full rides to people with ZERO crew experience, while men who had trained in their sport for decades where pushed out.
what is a woman?
End sex discrimination by starting thousands of courses that explicitly discriminate by sex!
Women are excluded from men’s sports because off their woeful athletic performance e.g they can not make the grade!
Men are excluded from women’s sports because off their sex – explicitly illegal under title IX!
come on guys, if people never fought for equal outcome. women would have stayed at 7% athletic representation from 1970. we need people fighting for both equal outcome and opportunity, so we can find a balance of what works and move forward.