Within the world of sports, or athletics, we have particularly seen evidence of this within the Olympics. The Olympics is the epitome of sports for all people, male, female, as well as color, and ethnicity from around the world. Title IX was supposed to change the world, and it has: the number of women participating in college sports has jumped up considerable since the law was enacted twenty-five years ago. But the world changes slowly. U.S.A.

The passage of Title IX in 1972, federal legislation that mandates full equality for women's intercollegiate sports, experiences and expectations for girls and women began to change dramatically. Recently female politicians in Germany called on the IOC to bar from the Olympics any nation attempting to forbid female participation, They stated that 35 countries had registered only male athletes for Atlanta. They called this "female apartheid" which is as damaging as racial apartheid that kept South Africa from participating in the Olympic games for more than 30 years. That protest was targeted at Middle East countries, whose Islamic Fundamentalist frown on female athletic participation because it necessitates what they feel is public immodesty. For instance showing their bare legs while participating in sports. Hassiba Boulermia is a prime example of such prejudice. She was an Algerian middle distant runner who was spat on and stoned while training in her country because of the perceived "public immodesty." She kept training anyway and won the Barcelona Olympic 1500 meters and proceeded to shout "Algeria"! at the TV cameras and carried the Algerian flag. Boulmerta was able to open a door for other young girls in her country. If the IOC were to boycott such countries from the Olympics other countries will not have a chance to open he door and see the light to let these young women compete. In the long run it would only hurt these women in Middle East countries instead of help them

Rueters, "Time Debuts Sports Illustrated Women/Sport," Business Report, 7 April, 1997

Smith, Walter, "Program To Introduce Black Female Athletes To Tennis And Golf In New York," The New York Beacon, 22 July, 1994

Today surveyed 303 Division I schools to see where Title IX has taken us in it twenty-five years and found that men still get most of the money. Taken together, the results are like a "good new, bad news" joke. The good news: the number of female athletes has increased 22% since 1992. The bad: for every one-dollar spent on woman's colleges sports three dollars is spent on men's. Female athletes get just 38% of the scholarship money, 27% of recruiting money and 25% of operating budgets. " It is encouraging to see the increases for women but very discouraging to see that they are not really sharing equally in the money. The money side of the ledger still gets the vast amount of the money," says Patty Viverito, Chairwoman of the NCAA's Committee on Women's Athletics. The newspaper took a detailed look at the issue in late 1995, when it stated numbers for 1994 of the 107 Division I-A school. Since then, the Equity In Athletics Disclosure Act, requires all colleges to report data on men and women's athletics. The Federal law took effect April 1, 1997.

Recently, Timer Incorporated announced that it would debut the first test issue of Sports Illustrated Women/Sports on April 21. The magazine, aimed at women 18-34, will be sent to 450,000 female Sports Illustrated subscribers as well as women selected form a Time Warner database, and 250,000 copies will be sent to newsstands for sale. The fi

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