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Making sure that the playing field is level for female athletes is a priority for the National Women's Law Center. Active since the 1972 enactment of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, the Center has worked hard to ensure that women and girls get their fair share of athletic opportunities -- from challenging schools to provide female athletes with equal access to athletic resources, to fighting efforts to weaken enforcement of Title IX protections for women and girls.
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Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX and Athletic Opportunities (May 2007)
This detailed guide includes comprehensive analyses of Title IX's legislative history and regulatory framework as it relates to athletics, as well as settlement agreements and other legal issues. In honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day the National Women's Law Center and the law firm DLA Piper offered a webinar, Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX and Athletic Opportunities, held on Feb. 5, 2009. |
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Check It Out: Is the Playing Field Level for Women and Girls at Your School? (October 2000) Women and girls continue to make tremendous contributions to sports, and they in turn reap great academic, economic, social and health benefits. Yet more than thirty-five years after Title IX was enacted, too many schools still are not providing their female students with equal athletic opportunities. Check It Out is an important tool for women and girls at all levels of education, as well as others interested in making sure that athletic opportunities are distributed fairly. It explains Title IX's requirements as applied to athletics and allows readers to examine their own schools' athletics programs to see whether males and females are treated equally. |
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