{"id":1600,"date":"2007-07-19T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/19\/not-your-mothers-title-ix-argu\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:24:08","slug":"not-your-mothers-title-ix-argu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/19\/not-your-mothers-title-ix-argu\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Mother’s Title IX Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because it seems to be a good day for psoting about totally non-controversial political topics that I will undoubtedly not have time to follow up on, here’s an article from Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> that takes a dim view of current arguments about Title IX<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Right now, the situation is getting us nowhere. Ultimately, all we ever talk about is the number of men and women playing sports at a given institution, and whether the women’s number is as high as it ought to be. Raw participation numbers occupy a pretty small portion of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title IX regulations, but the overwhelming majority of news stories, debates, and lawsuits filed in this area — as well as recent research<\/a> published by the Government Accountability Office — can be reduced to counting ponytails. Meanwhile, disparities between men’s revenue sports and all other sports continue to grow, while participation opportunities for women have stagnated.<\/p>\n

Enough. Parents, coaches, and athletics administrators need to take a fresh look at what gender equity really means. Rather than focusing on participation statistics, it would be helpful to remember that Title IX forbids denying anyone the benefits of such a program or subjecting them to discrimination on the basis of gender, not merely excluding them from participation. If policy were based on the assessing the benefits of participating in sports — measuring the quality of participation opportunities, not merely the quantity — we could move a long way toward fulfilling the promise of Title IX.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s an interesting suggestion, and certainly a different approach to the argument. Whether it’s really practical is another matter, but at least it’s a change from the same old bickering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it seems to be a good day for psoting about totally non-controversial political topics that I will undoubtedly not have time to follow up on, here’s an article from Inside Higher Ed that takes a dim view of current arguments about Title IX: Right now, the situation is getting us nowhere. Ultimately, all we… Continue reading Not Your Mother’s Title IX Argument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}