Title IX: ‘Revolutionary’ legislation but inequalities still exist 50 years later | USA TODAY

50 years after the passage of Title IX, female students and athletes still struggle to reach equality in important ways.

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Despite the progress ushered in by the landmark Title IX law, colleges and universities consistently devote fewer resources to women’s sports than men’s, based on the results of a first-of-its-kind data analysis by USA TODAY in collaboration with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University.

For every dollar schools spent on men, the analysis found, they spent just 71 cents on women in those categories. Over two seasons, that added up to $125 million more for men than women in basketball, baseball and softball, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, and tennis.

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5 comments

  1. I hope NIL continues to the gap. Corporate executives of Marketing have plenty of talented young women to champion.

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