There are no doubts women are on the rise with the greatest number of female candidates elected to office in the last midterm elections. Yet, when we look to sports, the lineup is still overwhelmingly male. In 1972, Title IX was passed at the collegiate level to address this issue.
Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools or education programs.
While passed in the 1970s, notable change, especially in women’s athletics, didn’t come until the NCAA published a landmark Gender-Equity Study in 1992, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it her personal mission to further the cause under the G.