Women faculty members were excluded from the faculty club and encouraged to join the faculty wives club instead. Twenty-five years later, educational opportunities for girls and women have increased, thanks to Title IX, but there is room for improvement. As the following progress reports make clear, Title IX has helped women and girls make strides in gaining access to higher education, athletics programming, and other areas, such as science and engineering. But many barriers remain. Too many girls and women still confront 'No Trespassing' signs throughout educational institutions.
Women remain underrepresented in critical areas such as math and science.
Colleges and universities continue to give short shrift to women's athletics, spending the lion's share of money on men's programming. Scoring gaps persist in standardized testing, limiting women's access to educational institutions, financial aid, and careers. Few women, particularly women of color, have broken the glass ceiling that keeps the top ranks of positions in colleges and universities primarily the preserve of men. Sexual harassment, which was not even defined as a legal concept in 1972, now has been identified as a barrier to students at every level of education. We owe it to our daughters to improve our performance on Title IX by removing these obstacles.