Title ix
" No person in the Unted States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial asistance"
History of Title IX
Title IX was signed into law in 1972 by the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education. It has made an significant change in schools across the country. Before Title IX, it was near impossible for women to succeed with continuing their education after high school. Women came across such obstacles such as some universities prohibited women to enroll, or women were not allowed to receive financial aid to attend such schools that would actually allow them to attend.
There is a three pronged test that determines whether or not the school is providing equal athletic participation opportunities to it's students. Schools comply with this test by meeting only one of the three:
1. by having roughly the same proportion of male and female athletics on teams as they have males and females in the student body.
2. by having a "history and continuing practice" of expanding opportunities for the underrepresented sex.
3. fully and effectively accommodating the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex.
Statisitics for Title IX
Before: 1 in 27 girls played in varsity sports.
Today: 1 in 2.5 girls play in varsity sports.
High School Athletes
Year: 1971- 72 2007-08 Increase:
Female: 294,015 3,057,266 940%
Male: 3,666,917 4,372,115 19%
NCAA Varsity Athletes
Year : 1971-72 2004-05 Increase:
Female: 29,972 166,728 456%
Male: 170,384 222,838 31%
Why do people say they are against Title IX?
For the people who think that Title IX means cutting some Men's teams to make more Women's teams are just plain wrong. When Title IX was created in 70's, there was a huge difference in the male to female ratio. Now a days that has changed so that there are more women than men enrolled in colleges. But since the increase of women in colleges, schools must cut down the budget for Men's teams, and apply it to the Women's teams. This does NOT mean that schools are supposed to cut Men's programs, most schools will not take anything thing from the budget of the popular sports football and basketball programs, so this forces cuts somewhere and the cuts usually fall on to the smaller programs like wrestling, tennis, swimming, etc.
History of Title IX
Title IX was signed into law in 1972 by the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education. It has made an significant change in schools across the country. Before Title IX, it was near impossible for women to succeed with continuing their education after high school. Women came across such obstacles such as some universities prohibited women to enroll, or women were not allowed to receive financial aid to attend such schools that would actually allow them to attend.
There is a three pronged test that determines whether or not the school is providing equal athletic participation opportunities to it's students. Schools comply with this test by meeting only one of the three:
1. by having roughly the same proportion of male and female athletics on teams as they have males and females in the student body.
2. by having a "history and continuing practice" of expanding opportunities for the underrepresented sex.
3. fully and effectively accommodating the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex.
Statisitics for Title IX
Before: 1 in 27 girls played in varsity sports.
Today: 1 in 2.5 girls play in varsity sports.
High School Athletes
Year: 1971- 72 2007-08 Increase:
Female: 294,015 3,057,266 940%
Male: 3,666,917 4,372,115 19%
NCAA Varsity Athletes
Year : 1971-72 2004-05 Increase:
Female: 29,972 166,728 456%
Male: 170,384 222,838 31%
Why do people say they are against Title IX?
For the people who think that Title IX means cutting some Men's teams to make more Women's teams are just plain wrong. When Title IX was created in 70's, there was a huge difference in the male to female ratio. Now a days that has changed so that there are more women than men enrolled in colleges. But since the increase of women in colleges, schools must cut down the budget for Men's teams, and apply it to the Women's teams. This does NOT mean that schools are supposed to cut Men's programs, most schools will not take anything thing from the budget of the popular sports football and basketball programs, so this forces cuts somewhere and the cuts usually fall on to the smaller programs like wrestling, tennis, swimming, etc.