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The Path Of Most Resistance: The Long Road Toward Gender Equity In Intercollegiate Athletics, Deborah Brake, Elizabeth Catlin
The Path Of Most Resistance: The Long Road Toward Gender Equity In Intercollegiate Athletics, Deborah Brake, Elizabeth Catlin
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
While sports have long played an important role in educating boys and young men in leadership, physical fitness and competitive skills, only recent- ly have girls and young women had the chance to benefit from athletic opportunities. Over two decades of experience with a federal statute pro- hibiting sex discrimination in school sports programs have brought important successes in opening doors for female athletes. However, enforcement of equal opportunity in this area has encountered strong resistance from the athletic establishment, which has fought efforts to equalize resources and opportunities for young women. Heightened enforcement of equal athletic opportunity in the …
An End To The Odyssey: Equal Athletic Opportunities For Women, Jeffrey H. Orleans
An End To The Odyssey: Equal Athletic Opportunities For Women, Jeffrey H. Orleans
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
I. Preface Princess and maids delighted in that feast; then, putting off their veils, they ran and passed a ball to a rhythmic beat. 1 So Homer, c. 800 B.C., sings of Princess Nausikaa before she befriends Odysseus near a stream on the island of Skheria. Homer's adventurer ac- cepts his royal rescuer's "game of her own" without surprise. Three millen- nia later, many American colleges are still unsure how men and women can have as equal a chance to "pass a ball" against other colleges as to parse the epic of Odysseus and Penelope in their classrooms. Title IX …
The Concept Of Substantial Proportionality In Title Ix Athletics Cases, Mary W. Gray
The Concept Of Substantial Proportionality In Title Ix Athletics Cases, Mary W. Gray
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
I. Introduction In the past several years, four federal court decisions interpreting Title IX 1 have sent tremors through the collegiate athletic establishment. 2 In all of these cases, the courts found the universities to have failed to provide effec- tive accommodation for the athletic interests and abilities of their women students, as required by the regulations issued pursuant to Title IX. 3 Al- though the regulations state that such accommodation is only one of the factors to be considered in determining compliance with Title IX, it was because of deficiencies in this area that courts found the institutions in …
Can Gender Equity Find A Place In Commercialized College Sports?, John C. Weistart
Can Gender Equity Find A Place In Commercialized College Sports?, John C. Weistart
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
The premise of Title IX should be uncontroversial: no person may be ex- cluded from the benefits of an educational program on the basis of gender. 1 There is a sense in which Title IX, at the time of its adoption more than twenty years ago, simply captured what was an independent societal norm of considerable force. Women were participating in higher education, including graduate and professional education, in increasing numbers and were properly claiming a right to equal opportunities. Sexual harassment was, and is, a per- sistent problem and some disciplines have changed only slowly. 2 The prevailing perception, …