1. Title IX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7VfnjiFA9c

2. TITLE IX What is it? For Whom is it? Why Should I Care?
What Does it Have to do With Equity?

3. TITLE IX
No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

4. Title IX
Title IX is a piece of legislation included in the Education Amendments 1972 that requires schools that receive federal funds to provide girls and women with equal opportunity to compete in sports.

5. Why was (and is) title IX needed?
Females were frequently denied enrollment in traditionally male courses and activities.
Women were denied equal educational and employment opportunities.
Women were either not allowed to participate in sports or participate in sports that were not funded at the same level as men’s sports

6. What Does Title IX Cover?
Admissions
Access to Courses or Programs
Includes Physical Education
Counseling
Student Rules and Policies
Treatment of Pregnant or Parenting Students
What Does Title IX Cover?

7. Title IX Financial Assistance Student Housing Athletics
Extra-Curricular Activities
Employment Practices
Sexual Harassment of Students and Employees

8. AREAS of Title IX Receiving the Most Attention
Athletics
Single Sex Classrooms
Sexual Harassment
Academic Achievement (Testing)
Discipline (Rules and Policies)

9. Athletics

10. Before Title IX
Things were different. The primary physical activities for girls were cheerleading and square-dancing. Only 1 in 27 girls played high school sports. There were virtually no college scholarships for female athletes. And female college athletes received only two percent of overall athletic budgets.

11. How does an athletic department comply with Title IX
Provide athletic opportunities to females and males
Demonstrate that women have equal opportunity as a whole-not on an individual basis

12. Treatment of Athletes
Treating male and female athletes fairly with respect to athletic scholarships means that the percentages of total athletic financial aid awarded to male and female athletes must be within one percent of their participation rates, unless a school can show why a bigger gap is not discriminatory. (Athletic financial aid includes any money given to athletes because they are athletes, such as grants-in-aid, loans and work- related grants.) Schools do not have to give the same number of scholarships to their male and female athletes, and the individual scholarships do not have to be of equal value.
FOR EXAMPLE: If 40 percent of a school’s athletes are women, then female athletes should get between 39 and 41 percent of the total athletic scholarship money awarded by the school.

13. Treatment of Athletes

14. Treatment of Athletes Publicity
Title IX and Equity in Athletics Participation

15. Treatment of Athletes: Equipment

16. Treatment of Athletes Travel and Daily Allowance
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17. Treatment of Athletes Facilities
Under Title IX, both baseball and softball programs are entitled to comparable facilities.
Title IX and Equity in Athletics Participation

18. What positive effects has Title IX had on Women’s Sport?
More women than ever competed in the recent Olympics.
Women's professional Sports
Increase in women's participation in high school an college sports
Greater variety of sports for women

19. NCAA Participation Rates
Participants: 412,768
57.4% male; 42.6% female
Teams: 17,682
Net Change – Since the academic year, female teams up 2,268, male teams up 273
Women’s teams up each of the last 25 yrs, while men’s teams have increased 7 of last 11 yrs
9,380 women’s teams; 8,302 men’s teams
Average number of student-athletes per school: 232 men & 168 women
Greatest team growth for women – soccer, golf, indoor track, cross country, outdoor track and softball
Greatest growth for men – indoor track, cross country, baseball, basketball, lacrosse and soccer.
Greatest losses of teams for men: wrestling, gymnastics, swimming/diving, fencing.
NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Website:
Title IX and Equity in Athletics Participation

20. Statistics
1 in 27 # of high school girls competing in sports prior to Title IX
1 in every 2.5 # of high school girls competing in sports today
3714 more women's teams on college campuses than there were in 1972
989 more men's teams
32,000 # of female college athletes in 1972
164,998 # of female college athletes today
8.7 The average number of women's teams offered per NCAA school in 2005.
2 # of women's teams offered per NCAA school in 1972
33% of total NCAA athletic budgets spent on ALL women's sports

21. Statistics
AND it's not just about sports, it's about equal opportunity in all aspects of publicly-funded education.
7% of law degrees earned by women in 1972
47 % of law degrees earned by women in 2007
9 % of medical degrees earned by women in 1972
43% of medical degrees earned by women in 2007

22. All things are still not totally equal
The general perception is that girls now have equal opportunities in all areas of athletics. But that's just not true.
Schools are providing 1.3 million fewer chances for girls to play sports in high school as compared to boys. While more than half of the students at NCAA schools are women, they receive only 44% of the athletic participation opportunities.
Female athletes at the typical Division I-FBS (formerly Division I-A) school receive roughly: 28% of the total money spent on athletics, 31% of the recruiting dollars, and 42% of the athletic scholarship dollars.
In 2008, only 43% of coaches of women's teams were women. In 1972, the number was over 90 percent.