Title IX's Flaws

Title nine was a major improvement in the fight for women’s equality stating, “no person could be denied the benefits of a federally funded educational program or activity on the basis of their gender” (“Top”). This clause seeks to give equal opportunity to women in education, work, and sports among other things. Unfortunately, people have found a way to get around this and the rights of women are still denied every day breaking this act of equality for women.
A place most open to vulnerability and inequality for women is the sports scene, a place that is most often wrongly seen as men’s only territory instead of a women’s. For example, “certain sports are still not offered for women competitors” (Daniels) including the sport of football. In college, wrestling is not a common playing field for women because it is so highly populated by male athletes. Society would not look the same on a female wrestler as they would on a male. This stereotyping of women’s contact sports discourages women to play most of these sports. Where is the equality in not offering the same sports to women that are offered to men? On the other hand, every sport that is offered to women is also offered to men, very unsurprising. The reply that women are not interested is untrue. If women can have the right to play rugby, why can’t they play football?
A policy in Title IX claims that schools can “gauge female students’ interest in athletics by doing nothing more than conducting an email survey to claim… a failure to respond to the survey shows a lack interest in playing sports” (Honawar). This shows a lack of effort in the clause, which seems to cover up the truth instead of finding a way to solve it. More bogus is shown in Title IX as colleges are forced to work against males in favor of females if necessary. People oppose Title IX because it rids of teams in college sports if the number of women and men are unequal (Gable). This is not what females want. Most want equal representation in favor of all. It is unfair to disadvantage the male gender and deny them of sports in college athletics as well as it is unfair to disadvantage women in favor of men.
When the common occasion comes that a woman athlete or sports figure makes an accomplishment or great feat in her sport or competition, it is “chalked up to Title IX, even though the law played no role in many of those sterling athletic careers” (Gable). Many women and girls have been able to push through the disbelief and discouragement brought on by many outsiders that say that women have no change in athletics. They have fought through on their own without the help of the law stating that they must be given the right. This law needs to be changed so that it better represents women in their search for equality for all, not matter what gender.

Works Cited

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