Title IX: Empowerment Through Education
  • Title
  • Home
  • Historical Context
    • Prior Conditions
    • Road to Title IX
  • Revolution
    • Important Players
    • Breadth of Title IX
  • Reaction
    • The 1970's
    • The 1980's
    • The 1990's
    • The 21st century
  • Reform
    • Higher Education
    • Athletics>
      • Athletic Opportunities
      • Women in Coaching
      • Promoting Athletics
    • Perceptions of Women
    • Sex Discrimination
    • World Impact
  • So What
    • Future
  • Conclusion
  • Political Cartoons
  • Research
    • Process Paper
    • Annotated Bibliography
    • Interview Transcripts>
      • Billie Jean King
      • Donna Lopiano
      • Carrie Lukas
      • Tom Osborne
      • Arne Duncan
      • Bernice Sandler

Perceptions of Women

"The largest impact of Title IX is in terms of participation and perception"
- Kathryn Olson, Women's Sports Foundation, Telegraph, June 23, 2011

Over time the perception of women’s role in society has changed due to the reforms created by Title IX. Participation in team sports and new educational paths and careers expanded the traditional role of women in society.
March 20, 1972
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"But there is a worm in the apple...no longer content with the homemaker... society has cast her...women are trying to define the New Feminism."
January 5, 1976
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"They have arrived like a new immigrant wave in male America. They may be cops, judges, military officers... women's lives are profoundly changing..."
July 12, 1982
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"The majority of American college students now are women...a constitutional guarantee of equal rights under the law."
October 26, 2009
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"If you were a woman reading this magazine 40 years ago...That your son was heading to college but not your daughter."

Opposition

"...the changes brought about through the women’s movement may have decreased women’s happiness. ... women may simply find the complexity and increased pressure in their modern lives to have come at the cost of happiness.."
- The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

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Source: Editorial cartoon, Henry Payne, Scripps Howard newspapers
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Source: Cartoons, Ann Telnaes, Sep 10, 1999

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