ABSTRACT
Gender in college sports and in sports generally speaking, hides in plain sight. For college athletes, there are men’s teams and women’s teams. Gender hides in plain sight under the gender separate structures of sports and Title IX policy. Coed sports are found in a few college level activities, typically in university club sports and intramurals. Title IX reflects the ways that social movements of the 1960s and 1970s called for equality and feminist legal theory focused on gender as the only construct of in equality. Title IX policy grants women the same opportunites as men in all aspects of the athletic program in a gender-separate structure. Equity in participation under Title IX, protecting equity for women athletes to play college sports, is known as accommodation of interest and opportunity. Equity in accommodation of interest and opportunity is guided by three measures, known in legal terms as the three-prong test.
