Our views

It is my opinion that men and women deserve equal rights and founding in academic areas. As far as sports go i believe that public schools because they are public should have to provide equal funding to both men and women but this disregards and booster club money. At private schools it should be entirely up to the school where there money goes.

Views for title IX

 Those girls and young women will not only be taking physical exercise; they'll be exercising their rights to equal opportunity under a law known as Title IX.~ senator, Ron Wyden. 

Nixon

Nixon who was president at the time is believed to have singed it out of its popularity. In order to leave his mark. and make an attempt to stay in the good graces of the public. as we all know it was futile. Nixon is said to have said "Minimize these changes to the extent law allows" showing his general disproval of the law.      

(http://www.titleix.info/History/The-Living-Law.aspx)

Gender equality task forsk statment on gender equality

" No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
" Gender equity is an atmosphere and a reality where fair distribution of overall athletic opportunity and resources are proportionate to enrollment, are available to women and men and where no student athlete, coach or athletic administrator is discriminated against in any way in the athletic program on the basis of gender."
" That is to say an athletic program is gender equitable when the men's sports program would be pleased to accept for its own overall participation, opportunities and resources currently allocated to the women's program and vice versa."- NCAA Gender Equity Task Force, 1972

Against title IX

"Title IX long ago ceased to be an effort to guarantee equal opportunities for all, and has instead become a crusade to impose quotas and gender preferences in schools.....Feminists have used Title IX as their all-purpose vehicle to advance a radical agenda in our schools, and have imposed this agenda on a willing bureaucracy and the federal courts.....The government claims that if the percentage of female athletes is close to the percentage of all female students, a school has proved non-discrimination.  If those numbers are not "proportional," schools may be out of compliance with Title IX.  In simpler terms, under this view of Title IX, men can play sports only to the extent that women are interested in playing sports."~ Allison Kasic and Kimberly Schuld, Independent Womens Forum

Controversy

Title IX was extremely controversial at the time. during the time period the role of women was one that still involved them being stay at home moms. The main point that came under fire was that of equal rights of athletics spending money. The Tower act of 1974 tried to eliminate this from the bill. It was shut down. Women were not seen as equal to men and were expected to have more of a home role. Title IX challenged  that idea. Women's athletics were seen as a waste of time and not some thing that could benefit every one. Traditionally the only girls sport that was important was cheer leading. Girl athletes were expected to be cheer leaders if any thing no one was going to take women's athletics seriously. How many famous women athletes were there at the time?
(http://mail.wma.us/~mslater/FOV2-00101A2B/S0106AB01-01082F33?)

History of Title IX

Many people believe title IX to revolve souly around sports. This is how ever only one of ten aspects of title IX the other areas include
1.Access to Higher Education
2.Career Education
3.Education for pregnant and parenting kids
4. Employment1.Acess
5.Learning Environment
6.Math and Science
7.Sexual Harassment
8.Standardized testing
9.Technology
The VII act is passed in 1964 which prohibited discrimination based on sex, race, nationality or religion. Schools were excluded. 1970 was the first time congress held hearings on sex discrimination on higher education. in 1972 the law was passed. in 1974 the tower act failed to pass which exempted sports. in 1975 the US dept. of HEW, passed the final regulations of title IX giving elementary schools 1 year to comply and High schools 3 years.
(http://www.titleix.info/history/history-overview.aspx)

Title IX

Essentially what title IX did was say that boys and girls must have equal rights in schools and that they deserved equal opportunities and funding.