Golf now ranks third among sports attracting female participants, behind walking and running.
Women who competed in the 2000 Olympics represent a generation of women who have benefited from Title IX and can participate in an Olympic-level competition. In 2000, for the first time in Olympic history, women competed in the same number of team sports as men. The 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia incorporated more than twenty new events for women. Of the 296 events at the 2000 Olympics, women competed in 118 events. Men and women shared 12 events.