Girls were officially able to play sports. Their schools had to spend the same amount on both boys, and girls sports. They couldn't just spend more on a certain gender just based off of how good they are at playing the sport.
Title IX has already changed the lives of so many girls and women. The law has helped girls and women achieve their dreams, many have even gone to the Olympics. In 1900, at the Olympic Games in Paris, France, only twenty-two of the 997 athletes were women. By 1960, over 20 percent of the participants at the Winter Olympic Games were women. At the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, women represented 40 percent of athletes. The numbers keep growing. In 2016, 45 percent of Olympic athletes were women.
"You should use us more," Ms. King urged Ms. Steinem. Ms. Steinme replied, "Billie, this is about politics." "Gloria," Ms. King replied, "we are politics."
~ Retold in the Washington Post
"The eighties you can burry as far as I'm concerned. The nineties were like a renaissance."
~Christine H.B. Grant, long-time women's athletic director at the University of Iowa
'Battle of The Sexes'
-Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a tennis match deemed "Battle of The Sexes"
Womens' Basketball Gold
- Women’s basketball became one of the biggest beneficiaries in post-Title IX opportunities, a fact exemplified by Cheryl Miller. She led the University of Southern California women’s basketball team to NCAA titles in 1983 and 1984, and then spurred the United States women’s team to basketball gold in the 1984 Olympics.
