April 13, 2007

Gender-Equity Advocates Face Looming Challenges in Women's Sports

By SARA LIPKA

Gender-equity advocates gathered at a conference in Cleveland last month to discuss looming challenges in women's sports.

Next month the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is scheduled to hold a hearing on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The meeting will focus on the most controversial means of compliance with the law.

Institutions can comply with Title IX by offering female students a number of roster spots in proportion to their representation in the college's

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