Sporting Equality
Subtitle: Title IX Thirty Years Later
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781315130170
Subjects: Sports for women; Women athletes; Government policy; Sex discrimination in sports; Sports féminins; Sportives; Politique gouvernementale; Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports; United States; Education Amendments of 1972 (United States)
Description: "As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. In the decades since, Title IX has had, among other effects, a marked increase on school athletic programs for women and girls at both the high school and college level. Despite this, a range of questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the federal government's enforcement, and also the impact on male athletics. The government can enact legislation, but how it works remains the domain of administrators at one end and thousands of athletes at the other. Sporting Equality reviews the impact of Title IX thirty years after its passage, and suggests future areas of contention. This new title includes the major findings and recommendations of the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics established in 2002, as well as the commission's minority report. These contributions are followed by seven chapters that analyze and assess the strength and weakness of Title IX and offer recommendations for strengthening or changing its goals and objectives. These include: Kimberly A. Yuracko, ""Title IX and the Problem of Gender Equality in Athletics""; Eric C. Dudley, Jr. and George Rutherglen, ""A Comment on the Report of the Commission to Review Title IX""; Barbara Murray, ""How to Evaluate the Implementation of Title IX at Colleges and Universities and Attitudes and Interest of Students Regarding Athletics""; John J. Cheslock and Deborah Anderson, ""Lessons From Research on Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics""; Valerie M. Bonnette, ""The Little Fusses Over Title IX.""The book concludes with two controversial chapters. The first, by Leo Kocher, argues that Title IX has been detrimental to male athletics, especially gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, and track, while the second by Ellen J. Staurowsky claims that T"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 1 Executive Summary --; title: chapter 2 Commission Findings --; title: chapter 3 Minority Views on the Report of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics: Executive Summary and Report  -- Donna de Varona and Julie Foudy; title: chapter 4 Testimony at the Chicago Town Hall Meeting  -- Katherine Kersten; title: chapter 5 What to do About Title IX  -- Andrew Zimbalist; title: chapter 6 Equal Opportunity in Education and Sport  -- Lisa Keegan; title: chapter 7 Title IX and the Problem of Gender Equality in Athletics  -- Kimberly A. Yuracko; title: chapter 8 A Comment on the Report of the Commission to Review Title IX Enforcement in Athletics  -- Earl C. Dudley, Jr. and George Rutherglen; title: chapter 9 How to Evaluate the Implementation of Title IX at Colleges and Universities and Attitudes and Interest of Students Regarding Athletics  -- Barbara Murray; title: chapter 10 Lessons from Research on Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics --; title: chapter 11 1972:  -- Leo Kocher; title: chapter 12 Title IX Manifesta: Reflections on the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics -- Ellen J. Staurowsky.