Impact
This memo requests that girls are welcome to participate in baseball past Little League just the same as boys. Prior to Title IX, girls could not play past Little League. This was sent to the White House and approved.
Memo for the President Gerald Ford, 1974, sent by Ken Cole
Issues in Universities
Right after Title IX was passed, the University of Georga became one of the first big colleges to continue to discriminate against gender. Female athletes filed complaints against this university in 1973 and 1976. The issue for a lot of schools was equal access. More money is put into the athletics that generate more money, and male sports tend to bring in more audience members.
Carrying Title IX Too Far, 1978, New York Times
This is the newspaper written on December 3, 1978 about colleges that continued to discriminate against gender in athletics, and how the issue of money existed.
Benefits For All
Men or women who participated in sports are less depressed, and they are much more mentally stable than the average person who is not physically active. All athletes learn virtues that are best taught through competing like commitment, teamwork, attitude, trust, and patients. Without sports available for everyone, it would be much harder, for females especially, to learn these virtues.
Women In Sports, 1978, Time Magazine
The Impact Today
Although females have much better opportunities than they did before 1972, women are still less likely to receive a scholarship than men. In 2018 there were 216,378 female athletes compared to 278,614 male athletes in the NCAA. The number of female athletes increased a great amount from 1972. In 1972, there were less than 30,000 women participating in sports at the collegiate level.