Federally funded Education Program. Okay. Im going to get started. Todays topic is Title Ix. This is a huge subject. Its of great interest to everybody. Its interest to athletes, educators, policy makers, your parents and your children, its such an enormous subject it could go for a year long course but just a little mini Lesson Today to get us started. Well be a good beginning and the more you know about Title Ix, the better your applications to Law School will look because it really is one of the biggest changes in womens lives and its altered the very School Setting we find ourselves in now. So Title Ix is a law thats part of the Education Act of 1972 and it appears at a point when there had already been more than 15 years of civil rights legislation, and much of the country had been focused on civil rights specifically pertaining to race for quite a bit of time. Unfortunately, there was very slow progress in changing womens opportunities, even though there was so much public discus
Such an enormous subject that it could go for a year long course, but just a little mini Lesson Today to get us started will be a good Beginning Oojd R and the more you know about Title Ix the better your applications to Law School will look and its one of the biggest visions in womens live and alter the very school setting that we find ourselves in now. Title ix is a law thats part of the Education Act of 1972, and it appears at a point when there her already about more than 15 years of civil Rights Legislation and much of the country had been focused on civil rights, specifically pertaining to race for quite a bit of time. Unfortunately, there was very slow progress in changing womens opportunities even though there was so much public discussion about equality, discrimination and justice. Gender was a category that department get a lot of investigation until later in the 60s and 70s, and the state of the u. S. In 1972 was very tough for a woman who wanted to be a athlete or a scholar
Okay . All right. So hi there, hi there. Welcome to athletics and gender again and Todays Topic is Title Ix. This is a huge subject. Its of great interest to everybody. Its of interest to athletes, educators, policy makers, your parents. There are children. And its such an enormous subject, it could go for a year long course. But just a little mini lesson today. To get us started, it will be a good beginning. And the more you know about Title Ix, the better your applications will look to Law School. Because it is one of the biggest changes in womens lives and it has altered the very school settings we find ourselves in now. So Title Ix is a law that is part of the education acts of 1972. And it appears at a point when there had already been more than 15 years of civil rights legislation. Much of the country had been focused on civil rights, specifically pertaining to race, for quite a bit of time. Unfortunately, there was a very slow progress in changing women s opportunities, even tho
Sglrchlts next we visit the Baseball Museum to learn about baseballs origins and early days. Welcome to the library of congress. Im the curator. This was a collaboration. Weve got some incredible things here on display. Lets start with some of the earliest. So right now, were standing in the front of the exhibit looking at origins and early days where weve got some interesting artifacts that suggest that baseball as a history thats much longer than the 19th century. In fact, weve got an example here from a medieval manuscript. These were part of the border of a book produced in 1934. We have a monk and a nun with a ball and a bat in what would have been a very primitive outfield. But what this shows you is that Bat And Ball games were being played for centuries before europeans began calling different kinds of games baseball. Our next stop here is this cute little book i absolutely adore. It is one of my favorite items. It is a little pretty pocketbook from 1987, and it includes here a
Sglrchlts next we visit the Baseball Museum to learn about baseballs origins and early days. Welcome to the library of congress. Im the curator. This was a collaboration. Weve got some incredible things here on display. Lets start with some of the earliest. So right now, were standing in the front of the exhibit looking at origins and early days where weve got some interesting artifacts that suggest that baseball as a history thats much longer than the 19th century. In fact, weve got an example here from a medieval manuscript. These were part of the border of a book produced in 1934. We have a monk and a nun with a ball and a bat in what would have been a very primitive outfield. But what this shows you is that Bat And Ball games were being played for centuries before europeans began calling different kinds of games baseball. Our next stop here is this cute little book i absolutely adore. It is one of my favorite items. It is a little pretty pocketbook from 1987, and it includes here a