Enacted in 1972, Title IX outlaws gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funding—but ensuring its enforcement has required vigilance
in school sports nationwide. Schools funneled women away from elite professions like medicine and law.
“We maintain that this country no longer can afford to waste the resources of its women citizens,” wrote a representative of the newly formed National Organization of Women in a 1966 letter to Johnson. It was just one of aThe landmark law initially faced stiff resistance: In June 1978, members of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education staged a"run-in" to protest delays in enforcing it.The push for Title IX beginsto the executive order in 1967.
Persuaded by the testimonies put forth during the hearings, Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii joined Green in drafting legislation that would prohibit sex discrimination in education. Their bill was introduced in the Senate by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh and passed as Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.But the law met with fierce public resistance, even after its passage.
Eventually, though, the resistance by Canham and others only resulted in more specific, and stringent, definitions of the law. The enforcement guidelines were clarified in the wake of his opposition.
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