Throughout history women have always suffered oppression and unfair treatment, especially in sports up until the introduction of Title IX in 1972 that “No person in the United 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 assistance." However even legally not being able to discriminate against female athletes, it still is a problem. Medical authorities dating back to Aristotle declared that women were basically ruled by their reproductive systems, with a limited amount of “energy” flowing through the body that monthly hormonal expenditure used up in dangerous quantities to begin with. Too much study or even bicycle riding and other “unladylike” sports would being advertised to leave women
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The rule, part of the Education Amendments of 1972, stipulates that any educational program or activity that receives federal funding cannot discriminate on the basis of sex, however it does not openly discuss how there are waivers that religiously based institutions can apply for in order to deny admittance to any student they wish. Its implications are many; recently, for example, Title IX has been the basis of complaints against schools charged with not properly responding to the issue of sexual assault. But its most famous impact has been on school sports programs. Because almost every college in the U.S. receives some kind of federal funding, female athletes were able to use Title IX to argue that schools should take women’s athletics as seriously as they did men’s. Which means equal funding, facilities, and otherwise support from the institution. However, a written law cannot dictate bias and engraved discrimination, what has been taught to men from the beginning of their lives to think that they are superior to
The rule, part of the Education Amendments of 1972, stipulates that any educational program or activity that receives federal funding cannot discriminate on the basis of sex, however it does not openly discuss how there are waivers that religiously based institutions can apply for in order to deny admittance to any student they wish. Its implications are many; recently, for example, Title IX has been the basis of complaints against schools charged with not properly responding to the issue of sexual assault. But its most famous impact has been on school sports programs. Because almost every college in the U.S. receives some kind of federal funding, female athletes were able to use Title IX to argue that schools should take women’s athletics as seriously as they did men’s. Which means equal funding, facilities, and otherwise support from the institution. However, a written law cannot dictate bias and engraved discrimination, what has been taught to men from the beginning of their lives to think that they are superior to