Breaking Down Barriers

Limited opportunities to participate, fewer scholarship dollars, inferior athletic equipment and facilities: these enduring problems mean that Title IX remains as important as ever to removing the barriers women and girls face in sports. Moreover, while other avenues are available to pursue the equitable treatment of women and girls in athletics, efforts to enforce Title IX’s prohibition against sex discrimination, including through litigation brought by parents, students, and coaches, has developed into a particularly effective tool in the battle to secure gender equity in athletics.