The federal law that prohibits gender inequality in schools and sports turns half a century old today. Let us celebrate her greatest hits!
After only four years of Title IX, the NCAA got so fed up with having to ensure women receive equal opportunity in college athletics that they sued the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to get rid of it, claiming that athletic programs don’t receive federal assistance. The suit was dismissed.
That same year, the women’s crew team at Yale protested their mistreatment in what ESPN has since referred to as the protestAt the time, the women’s team didn’t have their own showers or locker rooms and had to wait for the men to finish up before being allowed to use the facilities. They didn’t have uniforms and had to use the men’s old, broken equipment.
In March, 19 women from the team stormed the office of Yale’s director of physical education and stripped naked to reveal “Title IX” written on their backs in Yale blue. The team’s captain, Chris Ernst, read a statement that began with “These are the bodies Yale is exploiting. We have come here today to make clear how unprotected we are,” and ended with, “We’re human and being treated as less than such.” A defining moment for Title IX.
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