Overview+of+Women+in+Sports+and+Title+lX

=Women's Sports and Title lX= Today girls of all ages participate in P.E. and school sports. There are also many pro-athletes who are women. This might seem like a normal society to people of my generation, but to the one before me, it's progress. Before 1972 no school was required to provide sports teams, programs, or any opportunity for both men and women. Before Title lX, women were supposed to stay home and protect their fragile bodies from any strenuous exercise. Thanks to the courage of Bernice Sandler and organizations such as the Women Equity Action League, women are becoming men's equals. On these wiki pages, we hope to inform and entertain you with facts about women breaking the sports barrier. Feel free to ooh and ahh at people like Billie Jean King, Julie Krone, and Althea Gibson. Be fascinated by the court cases that formed the laws we live by today. Enjoy an interview with Billie King, and a bibliography of Mable Fairbanks. But most of all, be thankful that now a days, you don't need to go through legal papers just to create a girl's basketball team.

Go to Women's Rights - Breaking Barriers in Sports (Title IX)