Part of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives funding from the federal government.
Five decades on, though, is it working?
This week our host Teri Barr is talking with Henry Cordes, a Senior Enterprise Reporter with the Omaha World Herald in Omaha, Nebraska, who has been digging into recent federal data looking for athletic department numbers and what he found could land some schools in court if changes aren’t put in place, and soon.
- Title IX at 50: The law that has revolutionized women's sports
- Trio played legal hardball when going to bat for Nebraska high school softball
- Persistent women's athlete gap prompts Title IX review by Trev Alberts and Nebraska
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