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...faces painted in the team's colors, the dancing Husky mascot and sports reporters from publications not normally inclined to cover women's college athletics. "This turnout has nothing to do with Title IX," Perkins remarked, referring to the 1972 law that requires schools receiving federal funds to offer equal opportunities to men and women. "These people are here because our women's basketball team is so great...
...only 100 slots for men's sports and a football team takes up 85 of them, that leaves fewer slots for less fan-friendly, non-revenue-producing men's squads such as gymnastics and swimming. "The attitude for too long was that it was O.K. for women to have equal opportunity only after every boy who wants to has the right to play and never loses that right," says Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation...
...associate head coach, says she wonders if the players appreciate their good fortune. "I had a discussion with the team the other day about Title IX, and in all honesty, I was a little disappointed," she says. "For them, the opportunity has always been around. They're sharing equal time in the gym with the men. Their games are sold out. I'm not sure they understand what other women had to go through." Or if the law changes, what it may be like for the women coming behind them...
...stage, Latifah proved to be an equal-opportunity entertainer. She offered her own imitations of the various dances following each group’s performance, even singing along with the Kuumba Singers and “shimmying” to the beats of the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe...
Though female law students now have an almost-equal playing field and many entry-level job opportunities, she says, some obstacles remain...