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...were underfunded and unappreciated in the West. When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing overseas. Already steeped in a socialist mantra that preached equality between the sexes, China invested heavily in women's sports far before Title IX?the U.S. government mandate to end gender discrimination in collegiate sports?began leveling the playing field in America. "In addition to good training, our women can eat bitterness more than women from other countries," boasts Wei Hongquan, a publicity official with the State General Administration of Sport. "That...
Walsh also dismissed speculation that the improvements to the baseball field were delayed while matching funds were sought for the softball field in accordance with Title IX, which mandates comparable expenditures for male and female athletics...
...Athletics] Bob Scalise has been fighting for this for awhile, as had [former Director of Athletics] Bill Cleary,” Walsh said. “Both softball and baseball have been looking for some improvements. It really doesn’t have anything to do with Title IX. If it does, it’s so far up the ladder that I don’t know about...
...Administrative Board sexual assault policy sparks the U.S. Department of Education to investigate after a student files a complaint arguing that the policy violates Title IX gender discrimination policies...
...post-feminist generation, these concerns about use of “girl” seem petty and dated. Girls born in the ’80s grew up enjoying the benefits of Title IX; this year, more women than men were admitted to Harvard. In many ways, we take our basic equality with young men for granted. But “girl” is not exactly analogous to “guy”; we do not call the men of our acquaintance “boys.” The infantalizing connotations of “girl?...