Tilting the Playing Field
Subtitle: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: November 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781893554351
Subjects: Education; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Women athletes; Sex discrimination in sports; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Social Science; Education / Teaching; United States; Sociology; Sports for women; Educational; Gender Studies; Education / General; Women's Studies - General; Sex discrimination in educatio; Sex discrimination in education
First sentence: WHEN THE U.S. TEAM kicked its way to a spectacular victory over China in the Women's World Cup soccer final in the summer of 1999, the win was hailed as not just a triumph for women's soccer, but a triumph for women.
Description: "When it passed Title IX of the Education Amendments in 1972, Congress was doing something laudable and also long overdue - prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in America's schools. But thirty years later, hijacked by activist bureaucrats and feminist legal interpretation, a law originally designed to guarantee equal opportunity for women has become the most explicit, government-enforced quota regime in America.

Today, the most visible result of Title IX is not more female athletes, but the elimination of some of the most prestigious men's sports programs in the country in the name of "gender equity." The championship Providence College baseball team, Princeton's wrestling squad, Boston University's football team and the Olympic powerhouse UCLA men's swimming and diving programs are among the hundreds of men's sports teams to have been eliminated.".

"But while sports fans will be fascinated by Tilting the Playing Field, this is more than a book about athletics. Gavora shows how Title IX has marched triumphantly through every aspect of our educational world, from kindergarten to graduate school, making profound - and for some, profoundly disturbing - changes in areas as disparate as test scoring, sexual harassment, and teenage pregnancy."--BOOK JACKET.