America is a land of opportunity, equality and freedom. It is a place where people can come and have rights and be able to do the things they want to do, and be who they want to be. Title IX of the education amendments act of 1972 was set up for that reason. Title IX is a federal law that states, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." I will argue between two articles: The article "How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong" by Christina Hoff Sommers, and the article "Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in Schools." I chose to write about Title IX, not because I noticed any equality improvements, but because I still see sex discrimination in schools even though we have an issued law that prohibits it. Title IX is a good benefit to a lot of discriminations in schools, but why is it only for the federal financial funded schools? In my opinion, Title IX gave us a new chance for equal rights improvements. .
In her Time magazine article, "How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong," Christine Sommers argues that "the landmark legislation was supposed to bring equality, instead it devastated mens' sports on campus." She supports her position by providing a variety of evidence. For example, she offers statistics. Specifically, she reports that "Howard University in Washington, D.C.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. In 2007, the Women's Sports Foundation, a powerful Title IX advocacy group, gave Howard an "F" grade because of its 24% "proportionality gap." Howard had already cut men's wrestling and baseball and added women's bowling, but that did little to narrow the gap. Unless it cuts almost half of its current male athletes, Howard will remain under a Title IX cloud and legally vulnerable.
