Patsy Mink Gender Discrimination

Following the Title IX act, however, the number of female high school athletes rose from 295,000 to 2.6 million, and the number of female collegiate athletes rose from 30,000 to more than 150,000. Larger budgets and more

In his essay “The twenty-first-century Campus: Where Are the Men?” which appears in Sociology, Macionis describes the very common gender discrimination that favored men a century ago. Men’s colleges were to be seen in a great majority, however, steadily in a few years women began to increase. The gender gap was evident in all cultural categories at all class levels. Later on women started to become fairly a great majority at colleges and a gender imbalance was created. Women usually dominated discussions at college as there were few men in class.

Jennifer Delahunty Britz’s article, “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected”, begins by explaining how her daughter was waitlisted at a college she was qualified to attend. Following this, Britz elucidates reasoning behind this, informing that colleges show bias towards male applicants. It soon becomes clear that many declined and waitlisted female applicants possess more capability than accepted males. In order to prevent this, admission committees should exercise a gender-blind admittance procedure. Britz, dean of admissions at Kenyon College argues that: “few of us…were as talented…at age 17 as this young woman.

Although, womyn were allowed to attend co-educational academic institutions, this did not mean that they were welcomed, and had equal opportunities. Until the integration and active challenge to the patriarchal run academic institutions, womyn were not given a space to explore careers that went beyond certain occupational choices. Regardless of any strong academic standing that a girl may have, she was made to take a domestic science course or a home economics course (Tyack & Hansot, 1990). Womyn were heavily encouraged to pursue any of these four occupational roles: secretarial, nursing, teaching, or motherhood (Sadker & Sadker, 1995). Finally in 1972, with the passing of Title IX, it became illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender in

Title IX has had a huge effect on public school education. In fact the impact is so great I could not list them all. For the sake of time I will list the biggest one and that is the impact on women’s athletics. In 1971 only 15% of the athletes in college were women. In 2012 that number is 43%.

Title IX is a great law that help women get the same rights in education as men. Title IX has been active for over forty years and has been helping women achieve equality. Title IX is a law that stops sex discrimination and helps break down the barriers that women once had difficulty getting passed. This essay will be showing how Title IX is fair to men and women. This essay will show how Title IX is fair and show the claims on Title IX.

Title IX was signed into law in 1972 and it required equality for male and female students in each educational program and activity that received federal funding. This means that universities had to offer sports that women could participate in. The reasons Title IX came into being was a demand from Women’s Rights organizations for equal opportunities. Prior to 1972, sports, competition, and many other university programs were generally considered to be masculine and “ not ladylike.”

*SOCIAL* Gender roles and education was something people worried about, so they decided to take action (Flannery).Lots of people (especially women) felt like they had to follow gender roles in society. Lots of men felt like they were the ones that had to

Web. 24 Oct. 2016. With the clear gender roles in place it was hard for females to get jobs, espilacy well paying jobs were they weren’t constantly put down. It was even worse for females of color as discrimination ran rampant during the progressive era, with lynchings, police brutality, mobs, and other dangers out in the world females of color were degraded for not only being women but for being of a different ethnicity. “Comparison, black women only narrowed that gap by 9 cents, from earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a white man in 1980 to 65 cents today.”

For the most part, women were receiving education up to the elementary level. Advocates for women’s rights to education rose up and soon, teaching became a feminine job and a wide arrange of seminaries and academies for young ladies were built. This boom in education for both genders happened during the years leading up to the Woman Suffrage Movement in 1848, where those in support of women’s suffrage gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to pass a resolution that gave women the right to vote. So the question is asked: did women’s rights to education lead up to their suffrage? Women’s Education in the United States by Margaret A. Nash gives insight into how women’s education came about and what its purpose was.

The Title IX is a law that requires all education programs, mainly sports, that are federally funded to have gender equality. In 1906 the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) was created for formatting and enforcing rules in men's football, but it soon became the ruling body for college athletics. The NCAA was great for men but not so much for women, women did not get athletic scholarships and there were no championships for women's teams. In 1972 the Title IX was signed by President Nixon and passed, allowing more women to join sports teams and get college degrees. Currently there are more than 2.6 million girl athletes in high school and more than 150,000 in college.

As Birch Bayh once said, “Title IX is simple: don’t discriminate on the basis of sex (Birch).” According to The United States Department of Justice, Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity (“Overview”). Prior to the enactment of Title IX in 1972, “Only one in 27 girls played high school sports and there were virtually no college scholarships for female athletes” (“Before”). Forty years later the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) surveyed the number of college athletes in 2010-2011 and there were 252,946 men and 191,131 women participating in college level sports (NCAA). Title IX has helped women all around the country by creating more athletic opportunities in universities and education systems in general.

Women wanted to obtain college degrees, they wanted to do something different for themselves. The new woman was characterized for their free spirit, and way to think. The new women came to be defined as a

Raisin in the Sun: Gender Roles Defied Following the event of World War Two, America during the 1950s was an era of economic prosperity. Male soldiers had just returned home from war to see America “at the summit of the world”(Churchill). Many Americans were confident that the future held nothing other than peace and prosperity, so they decided to start families. However, the 1950s was also a time of radical changes. Because most of the men in the family had departed to fight in the war, women were left at home to do the housework.

Tying into the African American Civil Rights Movement, many other previously disadvantaged demographics such as women began to push for social equality as well, leading to the rise of right liberalism within American society. For example, tired of being treated as “little more than pretty helpers who typed memos and fetched coffee,” women such as Kate Millett began to raise awareness about “sexual politics” (Henretta, 925). These efforts eventually culminated in the passing of Title IX in 1972, which changed the identity of American higher education; prior to Title IX, women’s opportunities in higher education were very limited, but now, “formerly all-male bastions such as Yale, Princeton, and the U.S. military academies admitted women undergraduates