Title IX: Negative Effects On Women's Sports

Title IX was first created in 1972 to help increase the representation of women’s college athletics and stop discriminating and stereotyping them. In stereotyping women, athletic directors and coaches did not believe they had the physical or mental strength to play sports the same way men do. Many people were furious with the way women were treated and fought for years to enforce this law. While this enactment brought upon variation in women’s sports, it took a negative effect on the men’s side. Even when countless numbers of women joined collegiate athletics, there were still not as many as men. Since coaches were forced to bring in the same amount of girls as guys, their numbers either dropped or the entire program was cut. People fail to recognize the opportunities present to change this and bring back hundreds of programs to universities across the nation. Over the past 15 years, it is clear, through research, to see the negative impacts Title IX has on men’s sports programs. …show more content…
Over time, it is clear to see this is not the case. As women’s programs began to collect funding, men’s programs started to lose funding, particularly when there is a low interest rate from females. For instance, “The number of women seeking a college education has increased dramatically” (Marburger 71), and this requires a higher amount of participation from them. In the case that there are not enough women willing to join a certain sport, that program is usually cut. One of the biggest sports that suffered greatly amongst colleges was Wrestling, mainly because only a small percentage women are apart of this sport. In 2005, “the rules of title IX had a broad view and needed to clarify their explanation of some of the main rules” (Kennedy 81). The rules originally made in this law had many different viewpoints and they spent a lot of time trying to clarify each rule in the supreme