Women in Sports

It has been over 40 years since the passage of Title IX, and most debate about it has focused on the high-profile, big-spending world of college athletics. Such arguments miss the point of Title IX, which is to create equality in our school system, and misconstrue its true legacy of enabling mass sports participation for girls long before college.

In high schools, where there are 20 student athletes for every 1 college athlete, female participation in athletics has soared, as has participation in intramural athletics by both genders.