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Why do they always want to play with the boys? Golf megastar Annika Sorenstam won 13 out of 24 tournaments last year on her way to posting the lowest average score in LPGA history. Now she is turning her eyes to greener, er, greens: she has accepted an invitation to...
Title IX’s vulnerability first surfaced last February when a coalition of men’s sports groups, including the National Wrestling Coaches Association, filed a suit claiming that Title IX had gone too far and is now discriminating against men in its attempt to bring equity for...
There are actually three different ways in which the courts have consistently said that a university can comply with Title IX. Although universities can apply the proportionality standard, they can also comply in other ways: by demonstrating a history of expanding sports opportunities for women, or by meeting the athletic...
Opponents of the proportionality standard may argue that it makes no sense to cut men’s programs where there is a high level of interest in order to create women’s programs where interest may be minimal. But as tempting as that argument sounds, it does...
In addition, while it may be true that there has been a decline in the number of collegiate men’s wrestling teams, the decline is not primarily due to Title IX. The simple truth is that those athletic departments are often putting more money into popular and more...