![]() | Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports Subjects: Women athletes -- Government policy -- United States; Sex discrimination in sports -- Law and legislation -- United States; College sports for women -- United States -- History; College sports -- United States; United States. Education Amendments of 1972; In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution's Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution--their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimi nation in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men's and women's separate but obviously unequal sports programs. Kelly Belanger is a professor in the English Department at Valparaiso University. She is the coauthor of Second Shift: Teaching Writing to Working Adults . |
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