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Thank you so much for listening. When it was passed in 1972, Title IX began to transform the

landscape of American athletics by prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any federally funded

education program, including school sports.

Although the law does not specifically mention athletics, it has been impactful, as opportunities

for girls and women expanded dramatically in the decades that followed the passing of Title IX.

As a result, athletics became both a battleground and a symbol of

Title IX's broader fight for gender equality in education. However, the statistics of sexual

assault show us a dark side to college athletics. A study by Dr. Koss, based on national data from

2015, concluded that male athletes were involved in roughly

one-third of all reported sexual assaults committed on college campuses. Previously, a 1996

study using official records from 10 Division I collegiate institutions concluded that while, quote, athletes constitute

3.3% of the college population, they perpetrate 19% of all sexual assaults on campus, end

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And as a 2005 U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Center publication reports,

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