Over two decades have passed since
the enactment of Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex
discrimination in federally-funded education, including
athletics.
As a result of Title IX, women and girls have
benefited from more athletic participation opportunities
and more equitable facilities. Because of Title IX, more
women have received athletic scholarships and thus opportunities
for higher education that some may not have been able to
afford otherwise. In addition, because of Title IX the salaries
of coaches for women's teams increased.
But women and girl athletes have yet to reach
parity with men. Women are still only about one-third of
interscholastic and intercollegiate athletes. In addition,
women college athletes receive less than 26% of college
sports' operating budgets, and less than 28% of college
recruiting money (Women's Sports Foundation, 2001).
This Empowering Women in Sports report
is a publication of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Task
Force on Women and Girls in Sports.
More on Women
and Girls in Sports
(Empowering Women in Sports, The Empowering
Women Series, No. 4; A Publication of the Feminist Majority
Foundation, 1995)
