Title IX not entirely fair for males
I’ve always struggled with Title IX and gender equality issues, especially since I’ve seen it unfold over the past 40 years. The pure thought that males and females ought to have the same athletic opportunities makes total sense, but it doesn’t seem to have panned out that way.
I got to thinking about this issue when I read Amy Chu was back on the Iowa City West campus this weekend to participate in the dedication of the school’s soccer complex. Chu is 44 years old now and has a flourishing consulting career on the East Coast, but in 1984 the teenager made local and national headlines.
West did not have a girls soccer program at the time. Chu’s brother was on the boys team and she yearned to play. Then a junior, Chu joined the boys team at West after a series of legal wranglings. Chu entered a game against Cedar Rapids Jefferson and the J-Hawks promptly walked off the field in protest, per orders of the Cedar Rapids Community School District.
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