Sporting Equality
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Sporting Equality

Title IX Thirty Years Later

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Sporting Equality

Title IX Thirty Years Later

About this book

As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. In the decades since, Title IX has had, among other effects, a marked increase on school athletic programs for women and girls at both the high school and college level. Despite this, a range of questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the federal government's enforcement, and also the impact on male athletics. The government can enact legislation, but how it works remains the domain of administrators at one end and thousands of athletes at the other. Sporting Equality reviews the impact of Title IX thirty years after its passage, and suggests future areas of contention.This new title includes the major findings and recommendations of the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics established in 2002, as well as the commission's minority report. These contributions are followed by seven chapters that analyze and assess the strength and weakness of Title IX and offer recommendations for strengthening or changing its goals and objectives. These include: Kimberly A. Yuracko, ""Title IX and the Problem of Gender Equality in Athletics""; Eric C. Dudley, Jr. and George Rutherglen, ""A Comment on the Report of the Commission to Review Title IX""; Barbara Murray, ""How to Evaluate the Implementation of Title IX at Colleges and Universities and Attitudes and Interest of Students Regarding Athletics""; John J. Cheslock and Deborah Anderson, ""Lessons From Research on Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics""; Valerie M. Bonnette, ""The Little Fusses Over Title IX.""The book concludes with two controversial chapters. The first, by Leo Kocher, argues that Title IX has been detrimental to male athletics, especially gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, and track, while the second by Ellen J. Staurowsky claims that T

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138533400
eBook ISBN
9781351488372
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Tablr of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Executive Summary
  8. Chapter 2. Commisison Finding
  9. Chapter 3. Minority Views on the Report of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics: Executive Summary and Report
  10. Chapter 4. Testimony at the Chicago Town Hall Meeting
  11. Chapter 5. What To Do About Title IX
  12. Chapter 6. Equal Opportunity in Education and Sport
  13. Chapter 7. Title IX and the Problem of Gender Equality in Athletics
  14. Chapter 8. A Comment on the Report of the Commission to Review Title IX Enforcement in Athletics
  15. Chapter 9. How to Evaluate the Implementation of Title IX at Colleges and Universities and Attitudes and Interest of Students Regarding Athletics
  16. Chapter 10. Lessons from Research on Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics
  17. Chapter 11. 1972: “You Can’t Play Because You’re a Girl”; 2004: “You Can’t Play Because You’re a Boy”
  18. Chapter 12. Title IX Manifests: Reflections on the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics
  19. About the Contributors