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6 unusual facts about Title IX


California Golden Bears women's basketball

The first season of women's basketball at Cal was played from 1972–1973, right after Title IX went into effect.

Christian Peter

This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.

Ernie Vandeweghe

Dr. Vandeweghe has also served as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and served on the Olympic Sports Commission under President Gerald Ford, where he assisted with development of two key pieces of sports legislation--Title IX and the 1976 Amateur Athletic Act.

Gender in youth sports

The rise of organized sports opportunities for girls has increased dramatically since the passage of Title IX in 1972.

Texas Longhorns women's basketball

Title IX was passed in 1972, with a provision prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.

West Virginia Mountaineers women's basketball

The first women's basketball team was started in 1973, as a result of the Title IX mandates.


2001 Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State football game

Martin's success as a female athlete is considered a major milestone since the 1972 Title IX amendment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States.

Andrea Pino

Following the media coverage of the UNC complaint, Pino and Clark connected with sexual assault survivors from institutions across the country, formed a national network of activists and began assisting others in filing Title IX and Clery Act complaints against their institutions.

In response, Pino approached UNC alumna, Annie E. Clark, who also was allegedly mistreated, and began to research Title IX, a federal legislation which grants students the right to an education without sex discrimination, and the Clery Act which grants protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses.

Bill Pennington

Pennington is a 12-time finalist and six-time winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors national writing award, writing stories about overuse injuries in young athletes, unethical medical practices in professional sports, a profile of ski racer Lindsey Vonn and Title IX abuses.

Cat Whitehill

On February 1, 2006, she testified at a committee hearing of the United States Senate in support of Title IX, the civil rights law that, among other things, provides women and girls the same opportunities to participate in school sports that boys and men are offered.

Karen DeCrow

DeCrow was elected President of the National Organization for Women from 1974 to 1977, during which time she led campaigns to ensure that collegiate sports would be included under the scope of Title IX, oversaw the opening of a new NOW Action Center in Washington, D.C. and the establishment of NOW's National Task Force on Battered Women/Household Violence, and participated in a tour of over 80 public debates with antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly over the Equal Rights Amendment.

Mimi Ryan

University of Florida athletic director Ray Graves and associate athletic director Ruth Alexander had made the strategic decision to embrace Title IX, the new federal law requiring equal opportunities for women in U.S. college sports.

National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship

In 1978, American universities became subject to the law often known as Title IX, approved by the United States Congress in 1972.


see also

Armen Keteyian

Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University.

Investor Protection and Securities Reform Act of 2010

The Investor Protections and Improvements to the Regulation of Securities is a United States Act of Congress, which forms Title IX, sections 901 to 991 of the much broader and larger Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship

In 1992, the Supreme Court of the United States status cut and when the plaintiffs can ask for compensatory damage to universities and colleges by virtue of the Title IX if the discrimination is deliberate.