Title IX Effects On Women

Title IX has played a significant role in the lives of women and will continue to do so if school administrators, policymakers, and community leaders have a better understanding of the law and use it accordingly to benefit those in need of it. By understanding its implications for mothers and creating programs that represents the law and its purpose, school institutions can better facilitate education for them. Mothers have often been neglected when it comes to Title IX because school administrators did not understand the law’s effects on and intentions for mothers (Fershee, 2009; McNeeley, 2008). Its focused has been primarily on sports and athletic matters; however, mothers pursuing school, especially higher education, needs as much attention

Women would usually attribute discrimination to personnel or particular departments but did not view it as an institutional and systemic issue. Rose (2005) states, “ It is important to note that the emergence of political efforts to end sex discrimination emanated not from a large and organized women’s movement but from a small cadre of elites who had firsthand experiences with sex discrimination,” (p. 161). With several testimonies and investigations of sex discrimination in education initiated by this small cadre of elites, political and public awareness of the issue became more prominent. With the passage of Title IX, girls and women were treated not just more equally in higher education, but in other areas as such as athletics, STEM, and pregnancy and

In regards to pregnancy, Title IX was created to increase the equality of education for mothers and give them accommodations to succeed. Gough (2011) proposed three means to improve the implementation of Title IX: enhance the awareness of case laws and effective use of litigation, impose that teachers and administrators understand the law, and lastly, increase the regulations by the Office for Civil Rights. Teachers and administrators who understand the law can provide students with a better support network to enrich the lives of young pregnant and parenting students. Social support networks are important when it comes to offsetting stress for mothers dealing with school and other daily life occurrences (Schrag and Schmidt- Tieszen, 2014; Devereux, Weigel, Ballard-Reisch, Leigh, and Cahoon, 2009; Wilks & Spivey, 2010). Having these strong social support networks can help young mothers in relieving their stress of pregnancy and parenting (Gee and Rhodes,