Pros And Cons Of Title IX

Register to read the introduction… It goes on to explain how school manipulate the size and number of their men’s non-commercial sports to keep the number of male participants down and how it is counterintuitive to the goals expressed by Title IX. The article continues that Title IX was never meant to be an affirmative action law, but rather “like Title VI and Title VII, Title IX is an anti-discrimination statute” and has just been twisted to become different than what it was originally intended to be. The article finally proposes some long and short-term solutions to the problems it presented (Dubois, 1999). This source is credible because it is a peer reviewed paper with relevant information regarding the cutting of men’s teams’ funding and discusses errors with football being such a big …show more content…
The writer, Charles Kennedy, developed a form of measurement that he has titled the “Kennedy Index” to check if colleges are in compliance with Title IX according to five standards he chose himself: “participation, scholarship, coaching salaries, the recruitment budget, and operating expenses” (Kennedy, 2006). The closer to 0.0 a school received the closer it was to equality between males and females. A negative score in any field represents a bias towards males and a positive score a bias towards females. In the second test he performs he shows that he does not want to actually achieve a 0.0 rating, but would rather a school have as high of a positive rating as possible declaring a college with a rating of +6.24 as better than +0.54. This trend continues throughout the paper. This source is credible because it is a peer reviewed paper with relevant information regarding the way Title IX is viewed as an affirmative action …show more content…
They feel that because college sports for “first one hundred or more years of college sports, there were no women's sports” so they must now provide women every opportunity provided to men in the last 100 years. They feel that money should be taken away from the revenue producing sports and then provided to the women’s sports. However, most colleges take away from the less visible men’s sports (wrestling, soccer, swimming, etc.) to fund and attempt to achieve proportionality. The author states that these are not relevant arguments, but are rather there to “push the claims of women for recognition of their athletic aspirations into the swirl of anger” (Weistart, 1998). This source is credible because it is a peer reviewed paper with relevant information regarding fact that colleges must match even revenue producing men’s teams with women’s