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When President Richard Nixon
signed the Education Amendments

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Act on June '20
third, 1972 the law's

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title nine, which recognized
gender equity and education

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as a civil right.

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Altered women's sports forever.

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But that massive
shift was in part,

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an accident in the word sports
doesn't appear in the law.

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But inequality at
schools has a lot

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to do with inequality
in athletics.

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The first women's
basketball game

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was played in 1893
at Smith college,

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but the athletic director
refused invitations

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for intercollegiate
play because she didn't

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think it appropriate for women.

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And when Stanford undergraduates
organized a game against Cal

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in 1896, the school
responded by bolstering

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its men's athletic program and
cutting competition for women.

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It took years of advocacy to
shake even after Title IX.

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50 years after the
landmark legislation,

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there are signs of progress.

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The 2022 NCAA women's
basketball tournament

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was expanded to a 68 team field
and used the March Madness

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branding for the first time.

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The national championship
game was watched

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by nearly 5 million viewers.

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Title 9 has never been and
never will be just about sports.

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But women's sports have never
been just about sports, either.

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They're about a whole lot more.

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