The National Girls and Women In Sports Day was a great event for those who are going into education, especially health and physical education. This event was just over one hour long and had six panelist's talk about women in sports before and after Title IX (9). This was an amendment to deny any exclusion or denied benefits of, from participating in sports on the basis of sex. The five panelists were Jackie Barto, Wilma Briggs, Jo-Ann D'Alessandro, Gail Davis, and Cindy Neal. Each panelist has quite the extensive resume (found here) for participation of and continuation in betterment of sports, more-so for women. The event started with each women discussing sports before Title IX and aspects such as women were not allowed to play with men, established schools did not have girls teams that played other girls teams, instead they had to create their own team and organize their own meetings for competition. Each also had interesting stories of pre-Title IX such as not having a little league to join, but one father cut his daughters hair to get her on the boys team and she made it. An interesting part about the talk of pre-Title IX aspects was not only the fact that it was hard for women to get involved in sports, but when they did get involved everything that goes into playing sports was different from men to women. For example transportation for men would be by luxurious buses and for women it would be in personal cars. Pre-game meals would be vegetables and steak for men and something less for women like canned food. Times have changed since the implementation of Title IX. Studies have found that female college athletes have better graduation rates, and female participation in any sport at any levels yield better job opportunity outcomes. Although Title IX did not bring about immediate results benefits certainly started to arise and they are continuing to grow to this day. Title IX is an important part of society for our recognition that no one should be discriminated under any circumstances to participate in any opportunity, especially sports. The event was interesting and fulfilling as it allowed all of the students to interact with panelists and ask questions that were geared towards uncovering the truth of what it was like for women, and what can be done today to continue to improve upon progress.
Connection to Course texts:
This event relates to Delpit because "The rules and codes of power" in this situation "Title IX" identify the significance of women being able to participate in sports which provides explicitness in order to provide guidelines for belief in a system. This event relates to Johnson because we as a society must find solutions like "Title IX" to certain situations and evaporate the idea of this "difference" that is among us. Lastly this event relates to Kristof because during this time where you start at the beginning of your life (as a girl) is where you would end up (not on a team).
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