The Atlantic
The Title IX Loophole That Hurts NCAA Women’s Teams
A little-known Supreme Court ruling makes it legal for the league to promote its men’s and women’s teams unequally.
April 1, 2021
The deeply entrenched sexism in intercollegiate sports means that male athletes are treated with red-carpet fanfare, and women are treated as second-class citizens.Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic
When Sedona Prince, a center on the University of Oregon women’s basketball team, shared a TikTok from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament earlier this month, it went viral. Her video compared the women’s weight room in San Antonio a single small rack of dumbbells and a stack of yoga mats with what the men’s teams were provided at their tournament, in Indianapolis: a gym-size room full of squat racks, benches, barbells, and racks of heavy plates. Soon after, players and coaches from several teams began posting their own photos on social media: a buffet of steak and shrimp for
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