, with letting the girls compete directly with the boys, are you not buying into the idea of “separate but equal”? Does our society not shy away from “separate but equal”? When the African-Americans were being subjected to the effects of “separate but equal”, courts said it was anything but equal, and what did they do, they mandated desegregation, and its working. The female athletes are no more equal under Title IX than the African-Americans were under their version of “separate but equal”, the only answer is to desegregate sports as a whole.No matter which positions you take on the issues of Title IX, you must agree that its effects have been profound. Some good things have come from Title IX, some bad, some indifferent, but regardless of how you feel about what the act has done, it can not be argued that it has not made a substantial change in our society and how we view the education of females. The mere idea that sports have become the number one litigated issue of Title IX shows how much our society focuses on leisure activities and how much more it could focus on academic education. After all, if these students were not fighting for athletic scholarships, but instead were fighting for academic scholarships, wouldn’t the arguments be totally different? In time the issues surrounding Title IX, as well as the actual act itself have changed, and they will continue to change in the future. Until society has zero discrimination, regardless of age, sex, race, or disability, the courts will have issues such as Title IX to contend with. One can only hope that the future looks brighter than the past, and hope to attribute it to acts such as Title IX....
