... athletes" (34). Yet, male opportunities continue to be cut. Third, by trying to conform to proportionality, universities have created an unfair ratio of collegiate sports to prep sports. Wrestling, a men's sport, has a high school program to college program ratio of about 32:1. Women's soccer on the other hand has a ... fair to the women" (qtd. in Golab 72). Finally, people need to realize that "liking to play" sports is not the same as wanting to compete at an NCAA level, which requires far more devotion and sacrifice" (Golab 72). Surveys clearly and consistently show that men are nearl...

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... the act was passed, only 30,000 women competed in collegiate athletics compared to approximately 170,000. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) did not offer athletic scholarship for female athletes nor did they hold championships for women's sports. Title IX gave women of every age and race the opportunity to participate in athletics. It not only immensely impacted women's lives ... has not yet become comfortable with the ways in which female athleticism challenges the traditional norms of masculinity and femininity. An increasing number of girls and women participating i...

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... downfall of many nonrevenue men's programs can be tied to misallocation of funds rather than to the rise of women's sports (Ebsco Host). Here are some facts and figures: • Women's teams received $1 out of every $4 spent on recruiting in the NCAA. • Men's teams received nearly $3 out of every $4 spent for operating expenses. • Female athletes received $142 million less ... in scholarship aid than men on NCAA teams. • In Division 1-A, the head coaches of NCAA women's teams made 63 cents for every $1 paid to head coaches of men's teams. (Women's Sports Foundation, NCAA) When women ...

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... athletes" (34). Yet, male opportunities continue to be cut. Third, by trying to conform to proportionality, universities have created an unfair ratio of collegiate sports to prep sports. Wrestling, a men's sport, has a high school program to college program ratio of about 32:1. Women's soccer on the other hand has a ... fair to the women" (qtd. in Golab 72). Finally, people need to realize that "liking to play" sports is not the same as wanting to compete at an NCAA level, which requires far more devotion and sacrifice" (Golab 72). Surveys clearly and consistently show that men are nearl...

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... Title IX coverage, it will receive authorization to continue to spend more than it brings in, further worsening unfairness in women's sports and resulting in more men's teams being dropped. People might think that if a school chooses to field a football team that ... football. Under Title IX the NCAA currently gives many women's teams three times the scholarships available to men's teams in the equivalent sports. If they were to exclude football and distribute scholarships equally to men and women's comparable sports, success in collegiate athletics would ... not suffer. Many will argue...

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... 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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... and women to make this amendment happen. Before it came to life there were many barriers keeping females from fully participating in activities, unlike education, sports especially highlighted this. During the 1960s, girls were prominently seen to be girly, weaker, or the "fairer" sex; they were supposed ... with guidelines and factors to consider when choosing which test to apply." (119) The struggle of this amendment was significantly seen with in sports more over than in education.1 Women faced much discrimination in the athletic programs, but men took a hard hit from the enactment of...

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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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... IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the 1964 Civil Rights Act) This law has done wonderful things in the promotion of women's sports and is a great law in its original intent; however, the enforcement of this law has terribly perverted its spirit. In order to enforce ... program since men are still substantially overrepresented within the university's athletic programs." The court sited numerous cases in which the elimination of men's sports opportunity was permitted (TheMat.com). What was neglected to be mentioned was that the school boosted a larger percentage of female students ...

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... pain as a good thing. Sabo is able to say all of this though, because he is somewhat of an authority. The majority of men will say that they have played sports when they were little or even through high school. But how many men can say they got to play at the Division I level of the ... NCAA? Not many, and that makes Sabo respected and an authority when writing about football to the public. He introduces another authority in his essay when he brings in his high ... ...

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