Influence

      The Title IX Act was a significant influential aid, helping women receive equality in education and sports. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX would be removed from the coverage of athletics except for athletic scholarships because there was a large amount of  controversy with what women should be able to do in college. Three years later, President Ronald Reagen dismissed this idea and reinstated Title IX to cover all education even in sports that receive federal funding (Pruitt). By 2001, more women started becoming interested in college sports and the number of 16,000 women playing in college sports in 1966 rose to 150,000 attributing that 43 percent of people in college playing sports are women (Winslow). The year 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Title IX act and it was recorded that since the first year Title IX was put into place, more than three million girls started and are playing sports. By 2016, one in every five women were playing competitively in sports just in the United States. In the Rio De Janeiro Olympics in 2016, women “dominated in sports from gymnastics to basketball to swimming”. That year, 292 women joined the Olympics while only 263 men joined the Olympics (Pruitt). Title IX helped show women that they were able to do what they wanted and when they wanted to do it with no one telling them they could not.​​​​​​​