Title Nine, Charles Schulz Museum and Oiselle are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX with a Peanuts t-shirt (coming soon).
For the 40th Anniversary of Title IX, Charles Schulz Museum opened a new exhibit on January 14th - "Leveling the Playing Field". Billie Jean King (a personal friend of Charles Schulz) was one of the attendees along with a crew of other pre-eminent female athletes - Check it out.
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40 years ago Congress signed landmark legislation, Title IX, attacking the gender divide in sports. Today that divide has been virtually erased. In 1972, only 300,00 girls participate in high school sports. Today it's over 3,000,000!! Because many of us here at Title Nine, including our founder, were there in the early years, we think there's a lot to celebrate this year. So come along with us as we look back on all of the change that Title IX has brought.
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1 in 27 # of high school girls competing in sports prior to Title IX
1 in every 2.5 # of high school girls competing in sports today
3714 more women's teams on college campuses than there were in 1972
989 more men's teams
32,000 # of female college athletes in 1972
164,998 # of female college athletes today
8.7 The average number of women's teams offered per NCAA school in 2005.
2 # of women's teams offered per NCAA school in 1972
AND it's not just about sports, it's about equal opportunity in all aspects of publicly-funded education.
7% of law degrees earned by women in 1972
47% of law degrees earned by women in 2007
9% of medical degrees earned by women in 1972
43% of medical degrees earned by women in 2007
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At Title Nine we LIVE and breathe Title IX. We use real women models in our catalogs... shots of real women, with real bodies, being real athletes. We have an evangelical culture around fitness and sports. In the heart of our office is a full gym, where you can regularly find Title Niners testing their strength and hootin' and hollerin'. Every three months we launch in-house fitness challenges, and once a year we hold the T9 Olympics, a full day with company squads facing off in Noodle Hockey, Cup Stacking, and Mega Ball. In 2011 we tackled a 200-mile relay run from San Francisco to Napa! As a celebration of Title Nine we challenge ourselves every day. We are strong believers that a fit woman is fit for everything. How do you LIVE TITLE IX?
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