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A 4 page paper. Everyone knows who Babe Ruth was but far fewer people know who Babe Didrikson Zaharias. One reason for this discrepancy in notoriety is news coverage. Women's athletic and sports programs have not received the same level of funding or the same degree of publicity. This essay discusses these discrepancies, comments on Title IX and cites research that illustrates the benefits of sports programs and athletics for girls and women. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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six times (The Riverdeep Current, 2000). Zaharias, among other accomplishments, held American, Olympic or world records in several different track-and-field events, in fact, in one national event, she broke four
world records in one afternoon (The Riverdeep Current, 2000). She had two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal (The Riverdeep Current, 2000). Historically, women have not been given the
same news coverage as men for achievements in sports. Professional women athletes do not earn as much, either. According to Forbes magazine, in 1999, Tiger Woods earned $47 million while
the highest paid female athlete Martina Hingis, a Swiss tennis player, earned $12 million, of which only $3.3 million was prize money (The Riverdeep Current, 2000). On June 23, 1972,
President Nixon signed the Education Amendments of 1972, which included Title IX, barring gender discrimination by educational institutions receiving any federal funds (Riley, 1997). One of the most impacting components
of that law addressed secondary and postsecondary athletic programs. Schools had to meet proportionate ratios in their athletic programs, both in terms of resources and in terms of numbers of
team members. There had to be equity between girls and womens sports programs and boys and mens sports programs. So many decades later, it would be reasonable to assume that
all educational institutions had eliminated gender-oriented discriminatory practices in athletic programs. This is, sadly, not the case. Dramatic gains have been made but there is still a very long way
to go before girls and women have true equity in sports and athletic programs in high schools and colleges (Lichtman, 1998). The Womens Sports Foundation reports that at least 80
percent of the schools across America have not complied with all components in the law (Bock, 2002). The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education reported that prior to
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