Arguments Against Title IX

Title IX

Title IX is an education amendment that protects people from discrimination based on sex in the education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed this school changing bill that soon became a law ensuring that every young girl or woman could pursue any dream she had. This Title also covers discrimination in education and athletics. Title IX is 40 years strong ensuring that the generations to come will never have to suffer the consequences of discrimination.

Roughly over 400,000 students-athletes compete in college level sports especially in the NCAA. Most of these participants happen to be female. People to this day still believe that Title IX put a negative outlook

The counter argument generally comes from male athletes in college. Many colleges have numerous amounts of wrestling teams and this could be the reason why so many males may disagree with the bill. They usually state “instead of merging in more women’s they drop all of the minor men’s sports” Most of the time no one brings up the issue, until it’s taken to court to processed in front of a jury and a judge. But mostly nine times out of ten the court systems tends to rule in the women’s favor finding these acquisitions to be unsupported by just a small group of unhappy citizens. Money is another issue that ties into Title IX. At mostly every college money has to be dispersed across all of the school’s athletic programs, this often leads to many budget cuts. Football and basketball bring in the most money and the most customers, this is where most of the funding goes to. So seeing this already cuts down most of the money that could possibly be shared by unisex athletic programs. For example, at most division one schools if there is a major football team there can only be a women’s soccer team. This rule sometimes creates conflict. But the economy does have to play a major role in all of this. Here at the University of Ole Miss, I personally think the school does an excellent job of ensuring and promoting the title. The institution does not shy away from hiring female professors and always

Over the past hundred years, we have made great strides in gradually introducing our society to gender equity. Title IX does a great, if not perfect, job of reinforcing this and our newfound sociological ideals. It needs to remain the law of the land for many reasons. For one, it has already led to great advances in women’s sports participation rates at the college and high school levels. For another, it protects members of both genders. Finally, it still is needed to close the equality fissure that remains. The world of college sports has evolved from being extremely androcentric to one that has a great number of women participating. Unfortunately, it is very possible that the removal of Title IX would either slow, stop, or possibly even cause college athletics to revert to its previous bias in some ways. Why would anyone want