November 3, 1964: Patsy Mink was the first woman of color to enter the U.S. House of Representatives (Kuwana).
June 23, 1972: Patsy Mink found out the Education Amendment was getting signed and she helped make the Act that did not allow discrimination based on gender that was put into the Education Amendment Act. The act Mink made was called Title IX (“What Patsy Mink Made Possible").
June 23, 1972 : President Richard Nixson signed the Education Amendment which included Title IX the act Pasty Mink helped make (Kuwana).
April 17, 1973: There is finally a field in the Boston Marathon that is dedicated to women. This is six years after a woman named Roberta Gibb secretly entered an all men marathon, the only marathon (Kuwana).
May 20, 1974: Texas Senator John Tower tries to exempt Title IX, but it fails to pass in the House (Kuwana).
May 27, 1975 : President Gerald Ford signs a final version of Title IX (Kuwana).
July 21, 1975 : Schools and Athletic places were given three years to comply with the rules of Title IX until it is mandated (Kuwana).
September 1976 : A woman named Ann Meyers was the first women to receive a four year athletic scholarship when she enrolled into UCLA to play basketball (Kuwana).
January 12, 1981 : "The NCAA passes legislation to create women's Division 1 national championships". Within the next year multiple other sports followed their lead (Kuwana).
March 11, 1992: "The first gender equality study is done by the NCAA finds significant discrepancies in participation rates, funding and salary for men and women within athletic programs" (Kuwana).
October 20, 1994: An Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, sponsored by Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Rep. Cardiss Collins, was passed. It requires schools to create yearly reports on gender equity within their athletics (Kuwana).
August 3, 2011: Three women wrestlers who were removed from the team at UC Davis said that the university discriminated against them because of gender by forcing them to try out against the men. A federal court agrees that they were discriminated against and awarded them $1.3 million but said they were not discriminated against on purpose (Kuwana).