ABSTRACT

Sporting Equality: Title IX Thirty Years Later includes the major findings and recommendations of the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics established on June 27, 2002, as well as the Commission's Minority Report authored by Julie Foudy, captain of the US Women's National Soccer Team and Donna de Varona, first president of the Women's Sports Foundation and Olympic gold medallist. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, to whom both reports were submitted, stated that he would not accept the recommendations in the Minority Report and would accept only the fifteen of the twenty-three recommendations in the Majority Report that were adopted unanimously. These pieces are followed by six chapters that analyze and assess the strength and weakness of Title IX, and offer recommendations for strengthening or changing the goals and objectives of Title IX. The two most controversial chapters in the volume are by Leo Kocher, head wrestling coach of the University of Chicago.