Since Title IX, the law that states that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation or denied in any education program or activity, was passed in as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, women and sports have formed an important bond.
Before Title IX, only 7 percent of students in high school sports were female, and women were only 2 percent of the college students participating in sports, according to feminist.org. Slowly but surely, though, women in sports began to grow after President Richard Nixon signed the law.