... 57percent (the national average) then that school's athletes must be at least 57 percent female. This presumes that women want to participate in sports as much as men do. There is no excection for the "nontraditional" undergraduates (students older than 23), who are now making up almost ... raisers?" states Jan Golab(5). So instead of dropping football, most colleges and universities are deciding to cut Olympic sports, such as wrestling, swimming, and gymnastics. Between 1981 and 1999, NCAA and NAIA colleges got rid of forty percent of their wrestling teams, that is one hundre seventy on...

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... under much scrutiny and has undergone various changes. In fact, only a year later, greedy, non-supporters were at work trying to exclude non-revenue producing sports teams from the grips of Title IX. They Bumpus 3 are still trying to get this passed today. By 1978, all schools in America had a ... of women that receive medical degrees, up from a mere nine percent that obtained them in 1973. The amount of women that participate in college sports has quadrupled since its institution with an eightfold increase of those participating in high school athletics. These are just a few of the facts...

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