Title IX Persuasive Essay

Women may have been discouraged along the way, but we never gave up. Women are fighters. As a female athlete, I will always be grateful to Title IX. I would not be able to participate in high school athletics if Title IX was not passed. Women would still be overlooked, still be told to have two roles in life (which was to clean and take care of children) and still be stuck in a hole. We are going to make big things happen to each and every one of us. We are going to be the Women who make a difference in athletics, careers, and education. While yes, we are still fighting for equality in ways, but at least we can mark something off our lists. Title IX has been proving how a law can make a huge impact on lives. Title IX is/was necessary for protection …show more content…
Title IX declares that colleges must show proportionality. Proportionality means that if half of the students attending the college are female then athletics must be half too. Some colleges that have more male athletes can either cut their program or add a female team. Many colleges have had to cut their athletic programs for both women and men because they just can't afford both. It is hard for colleges to support certain sports that have mostly men and not women. Men athletes feel that these cuts of sports are due to Title IX. They don't believe it is fair to them. Jason Lewis, a former gymnast from Michigan State, claims that, "Twenty-three years ago, there were 107 men's gymnastic teams in this nation and now there are only twenty." Lewis says that "colleges now and days are just investing more into larger sports that get more of a crowd (such as football) and end up cutting funding for minor men's sports." Minor male sports include, gymnastics, wrestling, tennis, track and field. There has been a cut in these sports but is it really due to Title IX? It honestly just depends on the college, just as Lewis said some schools cut these sports because of