Title IX, 50 years later: Why female athletes are still fighting for equality
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
50 years ago, Title IX outlawed sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools. But in collegiate level sports, you’d be pushed to know it. Donna Lopiano and Lori Bullock join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:30.0 | I'm Kimberly Akinstor, in for Magna Chakrabardi and this is on point. |
| 0:37.9 | On this day, 50 years ago, June 23, 1972, an amendment was signed into law that held a promise |
| 0:45.6 | to change women's lives forever. |
| 0:48.3 | Our goal was to see that our daughters would have the same opportunities as our sons. |
| 0:55.6 | This then-senator Birchby from Indiana described as the father of Title IX. |
| 1:01.1 | An amendment tacked onto the 1964 Civil Rights Act banning gender discrimination at all schools |
| 1:07.2 | receiving federal funds. |
| 1:09.3 | It was just one sentence, a mere 37 words, but it gave thousands of women in the U.S. |
| 1:15.1 | more opportunities from the classroom to the playing fields. |
| 1:18.8 | For Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii, it marked a cultural shift in America. |
| 1:23.8 | And so long as any part of our society adheres to a sexist notion that men should do certain |
| 1:34.6 | things and women should do certain things and then begin to inculcate our babies with these |
| 1:40.8 | notions through curriculum development and so forth, then we'll never be rid of the |
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