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...current executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. "The impact is as much psychological as anything else," says Lopiano. "A lot of people--football coaches, especially--were absolutely convinced that some rich school would go to the court and salvation would be at hand and Title IX would be overturned. That was their dream. We hope now that they realize there is no out, that we can move forward and do what we were supposed to do 25 years...
...Title IX was signed into law on June 23, 1972, by Richard Nixon as part of a larger bill, the Education Amendments Act, proposed by Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green. Though compliance wasn't required until 1978, Title IX has become one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. When it was first passed, there were 31,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. There are now more than 120,000 female athletes in the nation's colleges. A survey by Brooklyn College professors R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter shows that in 1977, a year before Title...
...wonderful that we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Title IX, and so much has happened," says Carpenter. "But it's frustrating that there is still so much to be done." Acosta and Carpenter also discovered in their survey that the percentage of women coaching women's teams is down, from 49.4% in 1994 to 47.7% in 1996. While there are 1,003 more head-coaching jobs for women's teams than there were 10 years ago, there are only 333 more female head coaches...
...Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Education is responsible for enforcing Title IX, and it has established three criteria for compliance: 1) a close correlation between the percentage of female athletes and the percentage of female students; 2) continual progress in the expansion of women's sports; or 3) matching athletic opportunities with the interests and abilities of female students. According to a recent analysis by USA Today, only 9 of 107 Division I-A schools (Air Force, Navy, Army, Georgia Tech, Washington State, Virginia Tech, Kansas, Utah and Washington) meet the first criterion, so the two more...
...funding for the two men's teams was $16,000, while the women's teams represented an expenditure of $62,000. Brown, which was supported by briefs from more than 60 other institutions, has since spent an estimated $1 million on a team of lawyers to fight the Title IX ruling. Duke University law professor John Weistart, an expert on sports law, says, "I've looked at the amicus briefs, and some of them read like polemics, comparing Title IX to affirmative action. This case became the rallying cry for the anti-Title IX folks, so the reaction of supporters...