Title iv and women in sport

Title iv and women in sport

The Title IV documents were a huge step in equaling the rights of women and men. The documents showed the United States, if not the world, that women were a force to be reckoned with. Until recently, a woman's job was to be home and take care of the house and kids. If anybody went up to a woman and tell her to stay home and take care of the house and kids, she would probably look at that person with a look of confusion. She would also probably ask that person if they had been living under a rock for the past 30 years.

A woman today can be anything she wants to be. She could be a housewife if she wanted, a doctor, lawyer, fashion designer, etc. the possibilities are endless for a woman. Although, the pay may not be equal to a man and a woman may receive less respect than a man, jobs themselves have become unisex.

In March 1976, the women's crew of Yale stripped their clothes off in front of the director of women's athletics. Joni Barnett, the director, wrote a letter stating that “it is not within my province to accomplish any more than I have already done.” This should not be an excuse for anything because she is the director of an entire group of organizations. If she honestly believed in getting showers for the team, she would have been able to get them a when the team first started. After the letter was written the showers were finally installed after some time with temporary showers for the team.

Another instance of women's athletics going without what men were offered was in 1992. Cynthia Pemberton, the assistant athletic director at Linfield College in Oregon, wrote about how she found out about Title IX and how she was willing to risk it all to make the sports world equal, at least at Linfield. Her boss, Ad Rutschman, was head of the men's sports and Cynthia was head of the women's sports(Carpenter, 2005, p4239).

The discussion that took place between Ad and Cynthia was over a concession stand. The two argued over whether the concession should be open for all sports or just some. For her whole career at Linfield the two of them had followed a rule on the concession, “our policy and practice then was that a particular men's sport booster (a financial supporter of the athletic program) was in charge of running the concession stand.” (Carpenter, 2005, p4239) Ad basically said that if the booster did not feel like running the concession then the concession would not be run. Cynthia did not think that was exactly fair because that would give the women a chance to make some money in aspirations of becoming a wealthier team like the men.

In May 1991, Brown University decided to demote women's volleyball and gymnastics to a club status. This case went all the way to the ...