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Title IX: A Losing Game For Men’s Sports
Hayden Wynja
Composition & Analysis
Title IX was signed in 1972 for the sole purpose of prohibiting sex discrimination in
programs across the country. (Jackson.) Its purpose is to provide everyone with equal access to
any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance, including sports. Title IX
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strives for equality between male and female sports within collegiate athletic institutions.
However, this is not the case, in most cases across the country, women’s have a clear advantage
over men’s athletics.
This is a very touchy subject because the thought of “women having more than men”
sounds absurd at first because of all of the people pushing women’s rights, on the news, social
media, and from piers.
I think there are a few things wrong with Title IX. There are roughly 185,000 division 1
athletes in the NCAA, 53 percent of which are men, and 47 percent are women. (Lugade, Vipul.)
Title IX States that there has to roughly be an equal number of scholarships at every school
between men’s and women’s sports. (Jackson.) The obvious problem with this is that there are 6
percent more male division athletes. This means that there are 12,000 more male athletes than
