Word: genderism
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Members of both teams were also troubled by the lack of gender balance...
...what advocates for gender equity in college athletics called a victory, the Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear Brown University's appeal of lower court rulings that found that Brown had discriminated against female athletes...
...denial of Brown's appeal leaves in effect a ruling from last November by the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that Brown had violated Title IX, the 1972 code that bans gender discrimination in education...
...plan calls for increasing the number of varsity team positions available to female athletes to bring the gender ratios of Brown athletes to within less than 1 percent of the gender ratio of Brown's student body...
...revolutionizing women's sports. Brown's attorneys had argued that the school would be forced to cut academic offerings or cut male sports teams to avoid liability or loss of federal funds under Title IX. But the justices, without comment, upheld an appeals court ruling that schools must have "gender parity between its student body and its athletic lineup" or show strong progress in that direction. In Brown's case, at the time of the trial in 1993, 51 percent of the student body were women, while only 38 percent of its intercollegiate varsity athletes were women. The high court...