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Title IX - Girls Have The Same Chance As Boys

Lately Title IX Has Made Its Presence Felt Beyond The Playing Field

Title IX is known mostly for ensuring girls have the same chance as boys to participate in sports, but it has another role, too: It requires colleges to prevent sexual assault and violence on campus.
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Boys Chance The Girls IX Title

Study tracks Title IX use across US colleges and universities. Title IX -- the US civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs -- has been widely recognized as a crucial step toward gender equality in America. A new study tracks the changing use of Title IX over time in response to perceived gender disparities, and for the first time, systematically analyzes how the law has been mobilized at the federal level through complaints filed against four-year non-profit colleges and universities. Source 8a.