Women’s Sports Change Society in the United States

Title IX Fact Sheet

Test your interpretation of Title IX

Using the Fact Sheet, decide whether each of the following is not a compliance issue or out of compliance.

  1. A high school charges more for tickets to boys’ basketball games than it does for the girls’ games.  

    not a compliance issue____ out of compliance____

  2. An elementary school fails to stop a second grade boy from pulling down the pants of a girl in his class, after parents report incidents twice.

    not a compliance issue____ out of compliance____

  3. The girls’ tennis team can only use the school tennis court when it is not being used by the boys’ tennis team.

    not a compliance issue____ out of compliance____

  4. There is a single unisex bathroom on the 7th grade floor of the middle school.

    not a compliance issue____ out of compliance____

  5. A faculty member sends suggestive emails to a female colleague.

    not a compliance issue____ out of compliance____

    (All of these situations have occurred, and continue to do so. #2 became a court case that cost a school district more than a million dollars.

    In what ways has the Trump administration interpreted Title IX? See below.

ACTIVITY

Women’s Sports Most Valuable Players

You are going to create a “Mount Rushmore” of US Female Athletes. Which four of these eight greats would you include, and by what standards?

Serena Williams 

  • Considered the greatest female tennis player of all time and perhaps the greatest athlete of all time

  • Won 23 Grand Slam singles titles 

Billie Jean King

  • Famed high profile tennis champion and feminist

  • Succeeded in increasing rights and salaries for women players

Simone Biles

  • Most decorated gymnast in history

  • 23 world championship medals 

  • 7 Olympic gold medals

Becky Hammon

  • First woman to coach a men’s NBA team, the San Antonio Spurs

  • Coach of the WNBA Las Vegas Aces

Mia Hamm

  • 2 gold Olympic medals

  • The first woman soccer player to popularize the sport in the US

Caitlin Clark

  • NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer

  • The number one overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft

Katie Ledecky

  • 8 Olympic gold medals 

  • Most decorated woman in world champion Olympic history 

Wilma Rudolph

  • Overcame childhood polio

  • Won three Olympic gold medals

  • Named “Fastest Woman in the World”