Title IX--This essay is on Title IX and the 3 issues that have happened in Bakersfield, Calif. It includes statistics and quotes.

Title IX is one of the major amendments of the 21st century in education. The Archived: Title IX: A Sea Change in Gender Equity in Education cites that "Title IX was passed by the U.S. Congress on June 8, 1972, and signed by President Richard M. Nixon on June 23, 1972 and on July 1, 1972 it went into effect." The U.S. Department of Labor cites that Title IX is an amendment that states "No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance." Title IX was the first federal law that stopped from discriminating against sex in universities, including the teachers and the students.

Before Title IX women and men students attending schools and/or universities had separate entrances. Females were not able to attend certain classes like auto body or law enforcement.

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Women, Sport and Title IX Panel

Women, Sport and Title IX Panel

Also males were not allowed to take the class home economics. In many medical and law schools they only allowed up to 15 women in their schools. Also most colleges and universities required that all women have higher test scores to be admitted into the college or university. Women who lived on campus at the universities were not allowed to stay out past midnight. The women faculty members who worked at the universities before Title IX was passed were not allowed to join the faculty clubs, but they were encouraged to join the faculty wives' club. That was how women were discriminated. In 1971, a year before Title IX was passed, 18 % of the females and 26% of the males had only completed four years of college. As the U.S. Department of Education shows above, very few women and...