TITLE IX. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Mertens, Maggie
  • Source:
    Sports Illustrated. Jun2022, Vol. 133 Issue 5, p26-31. 6p. 14 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      WOMEN'S sports; SEX discrimination; WOMEN'S college basketball; SCHOOL sports; SPORTS participation; SEX discrimination in education; GENDER inequality; WOMEN'S basketball
    • Abstract:
      50 YEARS OF TITLE IX: TITLE IX50 B FORGOTTEN HEROES b B 32 b B AIAW BASKETBALL b B 38 b B NINE LEADERS b B 46 b B NEXT FRONTIERS b B 56 b B FOR WOMEN b of my generation, born a decade or more after Title IX was passed, the law had an almost mythical air. When Nelson spoke at a Title IX anniversary event at the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota in 2002, she cited the need for fairer implementation of the law. Men's coaches and athletic directors claimed equal budgets for men's and women's sports would spell the end of men's sports as we know it. In 1974, two years after the passage of Title IX, Mariah Burton Nelson accepted an offer of admission from Stanford, eager to play college basketball. [Extracted from the article]
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