Landmark Title IX legislation creates new inequities

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'Under Title IX, colleges and universities are required to provide the same amount of athletic opportunities or roster positions to both genders. This is only fair, right? Not quite.

And ironically, men’s athletics are on the receiving end of the unjustness.

Most schools have more women’s sports than men’s sports because they need to create more roster spots to keep up with the upwards of one hundred football roster spots that men fill. There is no women’s sport equivalent to football in terms of sheer number of players on a team.

Because of this, there are three significant consequences at most colleges: 1. women’s rosters on similar team sports tend to be larger than men’s; 2. there are fewer men’s sports programs; and 3. men’s sports programs are the first to be cut in order to keep the number of athletes “equal” between men and women.'