TITLE IX QUOTES
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
-Title IX
"Well, was there not a need to have classes for disadvantaged girls? Couldn't you have classes and include both boys and girls?"
-Edith Green
“Let us not deceive ourselves. Our educational institutions have proven to be no bastions of democracy.”
-Edith Green
“I don’t know when I have ever been so pleased, because I had worked so long and it had been such a tough battle.”
-Edith Green
"It was perfectly legal to discriminate in any education program against girls or women."
-Edith Green
"The great desire to win and the excitement of the game will make our women do sadly, unwomanly things."
-Sandra Berenson
"In May 1974, on a relatively slow day in the Senate, Mr. Tower [of Texas] quietly proposed changing a pending education bill to insist that Title IX rules couldn't apply to any sports that brought in money from ticket sales."
-Let Me Play (By Karen Blumenthal)
"I do not read this as requiring integration of dormitories between the sexes, nor do I feel it mandates the desegregation of football fields. What we are trying to do is provide equal access for women and men students to the educational process and the extracurricular activities in a school."
-Birch Bayh
"A girl just can't do those things and still be a lady."
-Unknown Sportswriter
"Thanks to the efforts of many women who refused to quit and who stood up for their daughters and mine, the door to opportunity was opened in 1972 for both boys and girls to escape gender stereotypes and to explore areas of interest not available in the past."
-RuthAnn Lobo
"A law designed to end discrimination against women is now causing discrimination against men."
-Jessica Gavora
"This legislation.... has resulted in considerable collateral damage for young male athletes. Although not in the original legislation, the law has been enforced through the use of a rigid quota system This system has resulted in the loss of 400 men's programs since 1972."
-Joe Miragliuolo
"At Rutgers, one of the slashed teams- men's tennis- had a budget of $175,000, which is roughly what the football team spent on hotel rooms- for its home games."
-Jonathan Zimmerman