COMMENTARY: Why, for instance, do female cyclists compete on significantly shorter courses than the men? Why is the women’s Olympic figure skating long program 30 seconds shorter than the men’s? amoryrowe looks at Title IX, 50 years on.
Katie Norbury of Princeton University plays defense against Wick Stanwick of Georgetown University during the Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship held at Curley Field on the Loyola College campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Princeton defeated Georgetown 12-7 for the national title.
The rope defined the field. And that season, the field defined us. Virginia Woolf might have written: “It is a field of your own.” Bragging rights were on the line; but deeper forces were at work, too. We were the same age as Title IX, the 1972 federal legislation that had made it possible for half of us to be on the field.
To be fair, over the past half-century of Title IX much work has been done to narrow the gap: Venus and Serena Williams, Billie Jean King and the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team fought for years to establish equal pay in tennis and soccer, respectively. Most recently, a sub-committee of the International Ski Federationin the upcoming World Cup cross-country season.
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