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In my analysis, Sommers' statistics show that most colleges survived, despite the fact that many sports did not survive, Title IX and governmental requirements that approximately equal amounts of athletic scholarships be offered to women as men. That requirement possibly was a net positive development; there are literally tens of thousands of women who got college degrees that they might not have been able to get absent scholarship funds. And unlike many of the male scholarship athletes who are in football and basketball, most of these women got real degrees and planned throughout to enter "real" jobs. While there are some professional opportunities for women in a few sports, that will give them another chance for better education through an athletic career in schools. But, at the same time, I hope that none of my women friends believe that Title IX was a development that had no negative consequences. There were hundreds of programs across the country in minor sports that men participated in that have been dropped in order to free up money for womens' scholarships.
Sommers doesn't rely solely on statistics, however. She also uses an emotional theme to support her opinion "The original law was about equality of opportunity and indeed forbade quotas or reverse discrimination schemes. But over the years, government officials, college administrators and jurists - spurred on by groups like the National Women's Law Center and the Women's Sports Foundation - transformed a fair-minded equity law into just such a quota-driven regime, with destructive results" showing that not only statistics is the proof of a great law went wrong, but also using the original goal of the law which is equality which makes her peers get furious about what went wrong throughout the years and use their emotions/effort to try fix what we have left.
The ACLU of Hawaii article quoted that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.