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Message: [QUOTE="CuseOnly, post: 1321921, member: 2804"] I read title IX before and I don't believe it says anything definitive about monetary expenditures of female and male sports having to be equal. That would be basically impossible considering the money spent on basketball and football. It seems to be more about participation and opportunity and equality in numbers of participants. From the National Women's Law Center website. [URL]http://www.nwlc.org/resource/debunking-myths-about-title-ix-and-athletics[/URL] [B]Myth:[/B] [I]Title IX requires equal spending on women's and men's sports.[/I] [B]Fact: Title IX does not require schools to spend the same amount of money on male and female athletes.[/B] Title IX requires schools to treat male and female athletes equally, but it recognizes that a football uniform costs more than a swimsuit. So it does not require that a school necessarily spend the same amount of money on uniforms for the swim team as for the football team. However, the school cannot provide men with top-notch uniforms and women with low-quality uniforms, or give male athletes home, away, and practice uniforms and female athletes only one set of uniforms. [B] Myth:[/B] [I]Title IX has gone too far.[/I] [B]Fact: The playing field is far from level for female athletes, despite Title IX's considerable successes.[/B] Women's athletics programs still lag behind men's programs. While slightly more than half of the students in NCAA schools are women, they receive only 44% of the athletic participation opportunities. Moreover, female athletes at the typical Division I-FBS school receive roughly: [LIST] [*]28% of the total money spent on athletics; [*]31% of the dollars spent to recruit new athletes; and [*]42% of the total athletic scholarship dollars. [/LIST] Spending on men's sports continues to dominate spending on women's sports: [LIST] [*]At the typical Division I-FBS school, for every dollar spent on women's sports, almost two and a half dollars are spent on men's sports. [*]In Division I-FBS, typical expenditures on football alone (over $12 million) exceed the typical [I]total[/I] expenditures for women's sports (over $8 million). [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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