Enforcement activity in athletics at every educational level has been virtually nonexistent. Women's college basketball is the one exception to diminishing coaching opportunities for women. This lone bright spot does little to address the dwindling opportunities for qualified female coaches and the attendant decrease in much needed role models for women athletes. The impact of sex segregation in the coaching market is exacerbated by the striking disparity in the salaries paid to coaches of men's and women's teams. In men's basketball, for example, the median compensation for coaches is three times that of coaches for women's basketball.
Similar inequities exist in coaching salaries for other men's and women's sports.
Title IX Enforcement. The record of Title IX enforcement in interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics in the past 25 years is fair at best, as evidenced by the persistent disparities highlighted above. OCR explained Title IX's requirements and the regulations in greater detail through a Policy Interpretation issued in 1979. Congress overturned this decision a few years later. With the full scope of Title IX restored in 1987, and with colleges responding to budget constraints by cutting already beleaguered women's teams, Title IX enforcement began again.