Over two decades have passed since the enactment of Title IX, a
federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded
education, including athletics. As a result of Title IX, women
and girls have benefited from more athletic participation
opportunities and more equitable facilities. Because of Title
IX, more women have received athletic scholarships and thus
opportunities for higher education that some may not have been
able to afford otherwise. In addition, because of Title IX the
salaries of coaches for women's teams increased. But women and
girl athletes have yet to reach parity with men. Women are still
only about one-third of interscholastic and intercollegiate
athletes. In addition, women college athletes receive less than
26% of college sports' operating budgets, and less than 28% of
college recruiting money (Women's Sports Foundation, 2001). This
Empowering Women in Sports report is a publication of the
Feminist Majority Foundation's Task Force on Women and Girls in
Sports. (Empowering Women