Perspective: Title IX passed 50 years ago. Here’s why it still matters.
When I was a teenage athlete in the 1980s, I believed two things about my sports experiences that turned out to not be entirely true: The first was that the reason I was so involved in sports was that my dad had been an athlete. The second was that my teammates and I were doing something that girls hadn’t done before.
What I didn’t know was that just seven years before I became a varsity goalkeeper, my high school didn’t have a girls’ soccer team. Seven years before I was recruited to play at Xavier University, there was no women’s soccer program there, either. Both teams were established amid the wave of programs created for girls and women in the late ’70s and early ’80s as educational institutions worked to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Can you guess what happened next? That year, the British Football Association banned women from play, calling the sport “unsuitable for females.“ The association, in addition to wanting to regulate women’s bodies, did not want women to get paid fairly for their time and labor.
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