Title IX’s first thirty seven words: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
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We started going to the UNLV Lady Rebel games in 2022 bringing attention to inequity in media coverage (women's team won and were on the 3rd page, men that lost on the front). We then we took our Nevada State ERA signs to the Las Vegas Aces celebration on the Strip when they became WNBA 2022 champions and attended games to support women’s sports.
Female athletes in professional basketball are generally paid significantly less than male athletes in professional sports.
Stephen Curry is the highest paid in NBA at $48.07 million 204 times what the highest paid women make in WNBA average salary $147,000
Salary cap for the NBA is $136 million, as opposed to the WNBA’s $1.42 million
Title IX: Two generations of women have benefited from increased opportunities both on and off the field. In the pre-Title IX era, 15% of college athletes were women. Today, 44% of the opportunities to play sports go to women. Since the introduction of Title IX, 3 million more high school girls and 200,000 more college women have opportunities to play sports each year.