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Are we really moving forward since Title IX? There are
conflicting facts floating around... |
Fact: Women's athletics at the largest universities are often
financed by revenues from football and men's basketball |
Fact: While
Title IX does not require colleges to give the same amount of
money to men's and women's sports programs or to have equal
numbers of male and female athletes, it does require them to
provide equitable resources and opportunities in a
nondiscriminatory way. |
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Fact: Women's sports
are not taken as seriously as men's as witnessed on on
SportsIllustrated.com, where the only mention of women is in
reference to models, or in old archives of the Olympics. Should
women's sports really only be given the spotlight every few years
during the Olympics? |
Fact:
Women have only recently had the resources to play different
sports like lacrosse. |
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Fact:
Female models are used in tennis tournaments instead of ball
boys.
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Fact:
Mia Hamm is a representative of women that have attained great
popularity for women's sports. |
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From SportsIllustrated.com's top ten list:
This week's
Tennis Masters Series men's tournament in Madrid will use
female models to replace the traditional ball boys and
girls. The trend is not expected to spread beyond men's events,
because in the women's game the models are too busy playing
tennis to chase after the balls. |
Title IX
reactions:
Democrat
or Republican, male or female, Americans strongly support
equitable financing for men's and women's sports -- even if that
means cutting men's teams
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Women's sports
have come a long way from where they were. The projection of
women in sports still has a long way to go to get onto the front
page of the sports section. We need to place it on the same page
as football and baseball. |
