Since Title IX became law back in 1972, dramatic changes have been made "...to level the playing fields of this nation's schools and to change the perception of the place of girls and women on them" ("Achieving" 1). Not only are more women participating in sports, they are participating in sports that were traditionally not occupied by women--such as "...lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, rugby and ice hockey" ("Achieving" 1). We are finally starting to erase the lines between what are defined as men sports and what are defined as wome

The whole point of Title IX is to give women more chances to participate in sports, not to make the illusion of increased "...participation by whacking men's programs" (qtd. in Daugherty 1). Achieving increased participation of women in sports can still be reached without cutting men's programs, it's just that expenditures need to be tracked and evenly distributed between male and female athletics. Now, "[t]hanks to a 1994 amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act introduced by Senators Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA), colleges and universities are now required to disclose funding and participation rates" ("Empowering" 2). This means that students and even those interested in a certain university can obtain information on a college's "...expenditures and participation rates broken down by gender" ("Empowering" 2). This allows them to see for themselves what money is going where and to who. It also encourages the college to be more aware!

of where it puts its money because it can be accessed by people and possibly argued against.

Also because more women are playing sports and being more active, we are finally getting away from the "thin is in" way of women looking. Women are encouraged to look more healthy and well nourished, than in the past when the supermodel thin look was viewed as the only way the female body should be perceived. Although the supermodel look is still consuming our magazines and billboards today, more people know this isn't the normal or even physically possible way to look. We now see women depicted as healthy and caring about their bodies and their health, not depriving themselves of food just to look a certain way to please others. Women are learning more and more every day that they must be happy within themselves and not worry so much about pleasing others if it doesn't please them. This evolution away from the stereotyped female body never would have occurred at the rate it has today, had Title IX not been taken into place. Women wouldn't be seen as athletic as they are today, and therefore wouldn't conform to the healthy, meat-on-their-bones look that so many people conform to to this day.

Some suggestions for possibly improving the implementation strategies would be to take into account both sexes, not that of just females. The females may be th

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