Essays on Title IX

Sadker and Sadker 1994 reported a startling fact that few people realize. Today”s girls continue a three-hundred year-old struggle for full participation in America”s educational system. During colonial times school doors were closed for young women seeking knowledge, and the home was considered the learning place for young women. The home, serving as the girls”…

On April 24, 1996, women’s basketball announced “We Got Next” as the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) to begin in June 1997. Since that day in 1996 there have been many firsts for the WNBA: Val Ackerman — the first president of the WNBA; Sheryl Swoopes…

There’s no crying…there’s no crying in baseball!”Serving as the manager of the Rockford Peaches, a professional baseballteam, Jimmy Dugan doesn’t tolerate crying from any of his players. Baseball of course being such a masculine sport, a game over flowing withtestosterone, jock-itch, and 5 o’clock shadows….right? Not when yourshortstop is wearing lipstick and the right fielder…

How is it reasonable that a men’s school sports team can be transported on planes and feast on steak, while a women’s team from a similar school, goes in a van and eats fast food? It’s not, but rather this happens regularly these days even with laws passed keeping this sort of segregation. In 1972,…