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The Pros And Cons Of Title IX

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Title IX is a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The main objective of this law is to not support sex discrimination with federal money. Though this law was put in place, women continue receiving less source and equipment than men’s sports teams. Some talk about girls dont like to play any sports so why should the boy’s teams get cut because of them. Maybe if we had the good equipment like the boys we’d show more interest. Title IX has improved some of the complications of equality in sports but not all. Is the law being enforced correctly? In the article Title IX Men’s Sport: A False Conflict the unnamed author says, “For every dollar spent on women’s sports, …show more content…

Why can’t women’s sports get two and a half dollars too? Looking at it from a broad perspective, it could really help the girls create more interest in their sports. We deserve better balls, bats, helmets, etc. “$6.4 million, went to football and men’s basketball. Total expenses for all women’s sports in 2010 by over $4 million.” (Sports) That $2.4 million is what’s keeping the girls from participating. A alternative to preserve existing sport opportunities while increasing opportunities for women, “states could assist financially-strapped institutions to increase opportunities for women by providing tuition waivers for female athletes, thus enabling schools to free up scholarship dollars to fund new programs for women.” …show more content…

Writes “Often cited are cuts of men’s sports programs to make room for more women’s teams under the mandate of Title IX.” Barbara Sheehan points out that because of Title IX, guys are having to sit in the “sidelines” because their team is getting cut. A simple solution for this in directly in the law. “ The federal courts of appeals uniformly have rejected legal challenges to Title IX—holding that Title IX in no way requires schools to cut men’s teams, but that schools may choose to structure their athletics programs however they wish as long as they treat men and women equally.” (Sports) If budgets were lowered for some of the teams, everyone can have their team and walk out happy. No one would blame the girls for not wanting to participate and them causing the men’s sports to

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In the article titled Face-off on the playing field By, Judith B. Stamper explains girls have their own story of support or discrimination, success also the debate of girls be allowed to compete on boys’ sports team. First, the writer Title IX explains female athletes are been treated second-class for long enough and should pass of inequalities and biases of girls. The writer also clarifies that girls doing sports make them healthier, physically, and emotionally. Other girls that don’t play sports are less likely to use of drugs. In addition, she notes a former Stanford University basketball player Mariah says, strength and independence of things girls learn from sports, the opportunities that are changing women.

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Case Name, Citation, Year Cook v. Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), 09-cv-00547 M.D. Fla. (2009) Facts of the Case: On June 16, 2009 parents of female athletes at FHSAA member schools filed suit against the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging that the newPolicy 6 discriminates against female students according to Title IX by reducing school participation in completions by 40 percent at the varsity level and 20 percent at the sub-varsity level. The plaintiffs also stated a complaint that male driven sports where exempt from this action because cheerleading was not recognized as a sport thus breaking the Title IX law. Issues: Why did Policy 6 reduced the number of competitions

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The tennis team had an approximate budget of $175,000. The National Center for Women’s Law displays that “Rutgers spent about $175,000 in the same year on hotel rooms for the football team - for home games” (Goodale). In addition, without Title IX, many women would be unable to participate in athletics at the college level. Erin Buzuvis, a law professor who teaches at New England University and a co-founder of a Title IX blog illustrates, “... We have always just been fighting for a chance to participate and showcase the athletic skills young women posses. Without Title IX, I don’t think that would’ve been possible” (qtd. in Goodale).

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Prior to Title IX, women’s sports were largely ignored and underfunded, with limited opportunities for participation and scholarships. The law mandated equal opportunities for women in sports, leading to the growth of women’s athletics and also a significant increase in female participation in sports. In college, the implementation of Title IX was monitored by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which ensured that schools followed the law by examining the number of scholarships, participation, opportunities, and resources allocated to women (Boschert 90). This led to an increase in the number of women’s teams, athletic scholarships, and facilities that provide equal opportunities for both

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Some argue that furthering options for female athletics would starve already successful men’s programs. This is, unfortunately, true to some extent. George F. Will writes in his article “A Train Wreck Called Title Ix” on the Newsweek website that colleges terminated over 400 men 's athletic teams to produce precise proportionality between the genders enrollments and participation in athletics. Although growing women’s athletics did cause some shortage in funding for men it is illogical to deny rights to one people group for the sake of having excess in another group. Female athletic programs were easy to blame for terminating some men’s programs, but if the funding were split more evenly between minor and major sports those programs might have

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Title IX is a landmark piece of legislation that is now 42 years old and still going strong in representing mainly women’s athletics and establishing a foundation to stand and improve upon. Before this piece of legislation, men’s sports dominated women’s sports in all aspects, both in money, participation, physicality etc. With this law being established women now have a stronger presence in the sporting world because of this law. Women’s sports still have a long way to come in gaining media attention especially in big tournaments like NCAA March madness. Title IX is now turning into controversial debates with the increase of women’s sports and programs for athletics but to make room for these sports, some men’s sports have to be cut.

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Some aspects of Title IX will tell you which side you will decide on. Even though I think Title IX is fair to men and women some may disagree with me. They might say that since Title IX seems to be paying more attention to girls they tend to cut out equal rights for men such as playing sports.

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Title nine requires athletic programs to be equivalent to enrollment. The number of sports programs for each sex should reflect the ratio of students enrolled in the school. With more women attending college the need for more sports programs has grown dramatically. I don’t want to get in a political discussion about schools who have cut men’s programs so I will only speak on schools who have added women’s programs. This opportunity has not only improved

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Women were supposed to be secretaries, teachers, and homemakers but never athletes. By requiring public Universities to create women’s sports teams, Women were able to gain a lot of new opportunities. As a result of Title IX sports participation rates among women

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• Title IX made it so that no person should be excluded from, denied benefits of, or subjected to discrimination from any educational institution or federally funded program or activity due to their sex. o Educational institutions are defined as any public or private preschool, primary, or secondary school, institution of vocational, professional, or higher education school. Exclusions include any educational institution of more than one school, college, or department which contain their own admissions in separate departments. • Subject to prohibition applies only to vocational, professional, graduate, higher education, and public undergraduate higher education institutions.

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With this in mind, the thought of compensating all athletes would not be in the best interest of the universities. It would be difficult to establish fair compensation for all sports and to draw the line for which athletes should be paid. The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team, the most successful women’s basketball program in NCAA history, lost over seven hundred thousand dollars in 2010 (Lewis 2). Just like with this university, for many universities, the profit made on football and men’s basketball are needed to help support and pay for all other

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Many people might not even know about some women's sports because there is less than 5% of media coverage of women sports over all. Men starting out for basketball make a minimum of $897,158 while women get minimum $41,965 the maximum a women can make is $117,500 which is 7 times less than the mens minimum, mens maximum income is $38,150,000. If men can make 7 times more than a woman as a beginning salary how can women compete and try to get paid correctly. It's not fair how much more they make because it's the same sport with the same rules played with the same equipment. About 25%-45% of that money alone was from marketing, if people market your items you will make money as well as get people more interested.

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Women in sports can compete the same, and sometimes even stronger, as men so their pay should just be as much as them, and the gender pay gap shouldn’t be present. If both sexes play the exact same sport, why do they have different fiscal values? Many female athletes are equally talented compared to men so they should at least get paid the same. “The U.S. women’s team will get a $2 million bonus for winning the FIFA Women 's World Cup. A lot of money to you and me, yes.

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If society stops to understand the struggles these women have been facing for decades will have a clearer picture of what steps to take in order to make a change in the sports industry. Men need to put their masculinity aside and advocate giving women a voice. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues women in the sport world have faced through history, wage gaps, current issues today, and to discuss findings and recommendations for future research. Title IX is a law that came into effect in 1972, this comprehensive federal law prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.

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