ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.

It's not just any haircut. It's Supercuts.

Today we continue our conversation about Title IX through the documentary series 37 words

here on ESPN Daily. It's Wednesday, June 22nd.

Title IX became law 50 years ago, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act.

Schools could no longer provide more resources to men than to women, and that's why it had such

impact in sports. Sports programs for women and girls back then were barely a thing,

and our bodies were generally not seen as fit to play or to compete.

I remember when I told my Russian Studies professor that I was going to try out for the Olympic

13, he said, if you want to ruin your body, go ahead. So it was a very difficult time.

I'm Allison Gluck, head of W Studios. Part two of ESPN Films documentary series on Title IX,

37 words, is directed by Nicole Noonam. We'll talk about the first women at Yale to Row Crew

and historic protests they led in the early 70s, shortly after Title IX was implemented,

where the women ended up naked and victorious. Here's my conversation with Nicole about all the

fascinating layers to their story. So when I found out that I was going to be directing an

episode of this Title IX series, I started talking about it with other women in my life,

and I kind of wanted to get a read on like, what did people know about Title IX, and what did they

know about the history of Title IX, and what did it mean to them, and I found out that not

unlike myself, most people really didn't know much about how it came to be.

But a friend of mine was at Yale in the 1970s, a barren mind that Yale had just become co-ed in 1969.

So in 1974, 75, 76, women were still a really new phenomenon at Yale, and men weren't really sure

how to deal with the women there, and what I was gleaning from my friend was that it was actually a

...