Not only is March the celebratory month for women across the world, but this March of 2022 has even more significant value.
Fifty years ago, the United States implemented Title IX — a federal law prohibiting gender related discrimination in education. One of the many effects of Title IX was the expansion of women’s sports programs at schools and universities across the nation.
While the University of Wisconsin certainly is dominated by female athletes today, that wasn’t always the case. You can go all the way back to the late 19th century to find women participating in sports on campus, but the current women’s sports landscape at UW wasn’t even the same as it is now back in the 1990s.