Title IX

            
             Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded educational institutions, has caused a lot of controversy over the last twenty years or so. Girls are complaining that boys are still getting more opportunities than them when it comes to participating in school-sponsored sports. On the other hand, a lot of boys in the case of Title IX say they have tangible proof that female equality has made men suffer over the years. They feel that since Title IX has to give the women more opportunities to become an athlete, they are taking away a lot of the men's opportunities. So who has the strongest argument, the men or the women? I feel the men do simply because the women have been complaining too much over last 20 years how about they have not gotten their fair share of opportunities to participate in sports. .
             One of the aspects of all this controversy that is causing a lot of questions is the money distribution among both men and women's sports. Men receive 133 million more in athletic scholarship than women. Furthermore, in 2000-01, the average annual base salary for a men's coach was $115,586 where as women coaches received $86,119, a salary gap of nearly $30,000. Most woman organizations believe that major sports such as men's football take up too much of the budget. The reason behind that is football requires a huge roster of players and secondly, football attracts the most public attention. If people continue to pay money to watch their football team every week then football is going to continue to have an enormous budget and rightfully so. What most women do not realize, in my opinion, is that almost everything in this world revolves around money, even sports. If you do not have enough money to support something, then it is most likely nothing will get done. A good example of this was when Dartmouth College did not have enough money to sustain a swim team until the whole team and alumni were able to raise $2 million.