Gender Equality In Sports

Title IX has impacted women and the sports played by women in the past years. It has certainly put up the terms in being ‘equal’ or close to it with comparison with men. Although it has not offered hundred percent opportunities compared to the opportunities men are given, it certainly gave women, in this era, an opportunity with sports and opportunities in education. According to the Title IX website, this was passed in 1972 that requires gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding. It was basically a stepping stone for women to have an opportunity and to receive funding to activities men were doing long before which society considered as ‘granted.’ When Title IX was passed almost no women participated
The benefits of sports can impact a person with being able to build self-esteem and help, especially if started at a young age, learn self-discipline, goal setting, problem solving, and many other great skills to help in progressing in life. Even women, in particular, can learn though playing and competing in athletics and it has transfer positive energy for success. Approximately 80 percent of women considered as key leaders in Fortune 500 companies participated actively in childhood sports (“The Promotion and Advancement of Women in Sports,” 2006). There is no doubt that sports can affect a person, regardless of gender, positively. For example, there used to be only one in 27 girls in high schools that would participate in sports before the Title IX but now there is one in three, which is an 800 percent increase (“The Promotion…Sports,” 2006). According to Richard W. Riley, the U.S. Secretary of Education, “America is a more equal, more educated and more prosperous nation because of the far-reaching effects of this legislation” (Laura K. Egendorf, 2012). Being able to give women chances after Title IX not only helped women, but also helped the nation because of the increasing amount of positive change they were able to offer to many different fields whether it is sports or education. In my opinion women were only suppressed because society saw them as inferior to men. Giving women more
This law certainly impacted women and their opportunities in sports and education. Although it may seem far in terms of being at the same stage of equality as men get, Title IX has helped women be more challenging. This helped them participate more in sports and also gave a new set of dreams that women can now have. In my opinion Title IX has greatly helped women get more funding and also gave them more chances in everything. It also helped the nation in terms of progress and that it certainly puts nations at a greater advantage as more women are given the chances. Personally, as a male student growing up with two sisters they did not face any inequality in terms of sport participation and education chances. Being more educated about the fact that Title IX has changed the nation when it was passed in 1972 helped me understand that we should treat women as equal to men. Although social norms are not used to seeing women on ‘top’ it is necessary to be more exposed to the fact and look at women as equal in terms of