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...year Title IX was passed, a total of 29,972 women competed in college sports. In 2001, that number had grown five-fold to 150,916. In high schools today, roughly 2.8 million girls play sports—ten times the number in 1972. These increases clearly indicate that Title IX, an amendment to the Education Act that banned discrimination in education on the basis of sex, has dramatically changed the face of American athletics. However, these advances are under serious threat. A federal commission is proposing changes in the law’s implementation—changes that would...
...complaint argues that the new policy violates Title IX...
These recommendations are not binding on Paige. And because of the commission’s lax approach to these important matters, he has much more legwork to do, but can take advantage of the expansive Title IX research collected by government research groups like Congress’s General Accounting Office, and also by credible private groups, both liberal and conservative...
Furthermore, while Title IX has worked brilliantly in some parts of the country, where men’s and women’s sports have finally reached equality, there are vast disparities in the enforcement of Office of Civil Rights guidelines in different regions. For example, while women’s field hockey often balances out men’s wrestling in a New England school, men’s athletics, namely football, routinely dominates women’s sports in states like Texas...
There is no doubt that Title IX needs some revisions on its 30th birthday, but the commission appointed for that purpose has done little to help Secretary Paige achieve that goal...