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How Title IX and Proportionality Population Concepts Have Equalized Collegiate Women's Sports Programs with Men's Sports and Allows Spillover Gains for Women in the Workplace
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Compton, Nina H.; Compton, J. Douglas – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Title IX of the Education Reformation Act was passed in 1972 for the purpose of providing equality between males and females in intercollegiate sports. Since its inception the disparity between men's and women's varsity athletics programs has persisted throughout American colleges and universities. Discrimination and equal protection concerns…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Womens Athletics, Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination
Title IX: Current Judicial, Legislative, and Administrative Activity.
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Sorenson, Gail Paulus – 1985
The Supreme Court, in the case of "Grove City College v. Bell," ruled that federal regulation and enforcement activities designed to eliminate discrimination based on sex are triggered by indirect federal aid and are program specific. The Court's program-specific conclusion was immediately applied to federal statutory language that…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
"Open to All": Title IX at Thirty.
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of the Secretary. – 2003
In June 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Education established the Secretary's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics. The purpose of the 15-member Commission was to collect information, analyze issues, and obtain broad public input directed at improving the application of current federal standards for measuring equal opportunity for men and women and…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Equal Education, Equal Facilities, Higher Education