Title IX: Job Of Limiting Discrimination In Sports

Sports play a big role in Americans' lives throughout the US. This includes college and professional sports. Some sports are more popular than others and some sports are male dominated. As a fan of sports, I find it hard to support a system that continues to limit women from being part of sports and athletics. So, is Title IX really doing its job of limiting discrimination in sports based on sex or could it improve? Title IX was meant to order change in American education by illiminating discrimination on gender, but instead it still has problems and could use some improvement. One of the main splits between men and women athletics is the pay gaps between the two sexes. The salary difference between the United States Mens and Womens National Teams proves this. For example, “Each player on the USWNT earns $99,000 per year provided the team wins 20 “friendlies” (exhibition matches), the minimum number of matches they would play. By contrast, each men’s player would earn $263,320 for the same feat and would still earn $100,000 if the team lost all 20 games,” (Walters 3). This

I sadly have to say womens athletics are also often disregarded. For example, the now-famous tennis match between tennis Hall of Famers Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs shows the way women's sports are viewed throughout our society. King's goal was to close the pay gap between her and her colleagues because there was a great difference in between their salaries. Billie Jean King felt that “women's sports were still generally treated as a novelty,” (Ott 2). She needed to beat Riggs in order to demonstrate that she is not inferior to men. Women's sports are treated unequally compared to men’s sports because sports are viewed not to be a womens role. We believe that the goal of Title IX is to ensure that there is gender equality in sports. It is mandatory for sports receiving federal funds to make sports equal for both