Title IX

At first before the passing of Title IX there were lots of Universities that didn 't accept women into their law and medical programs. When it came to athletics it was rare to see women plus they received very little support from the colleges athletic programs. Title IX was created with the same intentions as all the other civil rights legislation: “In our democracy, the government may not play favorites…

from the Title IX laws, the university has decided to try and remove three men’s sports in order to gain funding for more women’s athletic programs. The overall goal, it seems, is to disengage…

Title IX- A Law Worth Keeping Title IX is a federal law created in 1972 that prohibits sexual discrimination in education and school athletics. Sexual discrimination in education can be interpreted as females not receiving equal scholarship opportunities as males, as well as women’s programs or men’s programs getting less funding so that the other gender’s programs may gain. The main reason that Title was created was to prevent sexual discrimination in places of education. Although some believe…

First, as an athletic director it is most important to understand where your current level of Title IX compliance lies. . Full understanding of how to prove Title IX compliance would also be extremely relevant. Title IX is a compliance issue that requires a considerable amount of attention, and should be constantly on the mind of an athletic director. In regards to harassment, education of staff is once again of paramount importance. The staff needs to understand that harassment, bullying, or…

charge of athletic departments, but it was because there was a separation of men and women’s athletics. Women were in charge of the female sports and men were in charge of the male sports teams. In Bill Littlefield’s article (2015) he says after Title IX, the two departments were combined resulting in the women losing their jobs over the men. The process of hiring females in sport leadership positions is constantly evolving, and the most important part out of the whole process is where/how far…

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…

Title IX Playing on a high school varsity has changed my life. Basketball has shifted Cannon Falls High School incredibly. My first year playing varsity basketball there was 13 girls. This year there is only nine participating. It is a difficult switch, going against the same 9 girls every day at practice, knowing their moves, it gets boring. All the girls make playing enjoyable and each person gives out the urge to go on. Feeling how women did before Title IX, with so little number I am…

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…

Title IX Title IX has raised many questions over the years. The questions in perspective are “is this equal among men and women?” Specifically, in recent years, this question has been applied to the various sports among men and women across the United States. Though this law has had many advantages it also has its disadvantages, but where did it all start? In the 1970’s, the “godmother” of Title IX had filed lawsuits against over 250 schools. This happened in a time when there were no laws…

is Title IX enforcement still serving its intended purpose? The shear complexity of Title IX is daunting and broad to say the least. Recently, Title IX has received a lot of attention and publicity with the release of the movie, The Hunting Ground (Dick & Ziering, 2015) which depicts the true story of several college students who were sexually assaulted while attending colleges and universities across the United States. There are two main points I believe to be true when discussing Title IX…