Fifty years later, Title IX slogan ‘Give women a sporting chance’ still propels advocates
In July 1972, armed with newly enacted Title IX legislation and boxes of bright yellow buttons with clever complementing slogans, a young Margaret Dunkle set about her new role in Washington, D.C., as a researcher with Association of American College’s Project on the Status and Education of Women.
In July 1972, armed with newly enacted Title IX legislation and boxes of bright yellow buttons with clever complementing slogans, a young Margaret Dunkle set about her new role in Washington, D.C., as a researcher with Association of American College’s Project on the Status and Education of Women.
Her task? Explore just how well schools, colleges and universities matched up under the new statutory requirement, which for the first time under federal civil rights law, prohibited sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives funding from the federal government.
Those 37 words, passed as part of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, read: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”