Women in Sports

Title IX requires equal spending on women's and men's sports

Currently the second highest paid female athlete

2/3 of high school girls play sports, 50% of the boys play sports

These sisters competed against each other for the U.S. Open Championship in 2001

Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to do this

This Olympic swimmer won 6 gold medals, recently suffered a spinal injury in skiing accident

Currently the highest paid women's athlete

First woman to win three gold medals (happened in 1960).

Football and basketball consume 80% of NCAA DI athletic budgets

Amendment that said no American woman could be denied from participating in sports

More than 90,000 fans in the stands watched the U.S. Women's Soccer team defeat what country

Earnings of highest paid male athlete in 2013

This University's Women's Basketball Team won 90 consecutive games

Girls participating in sports have a lower self esteem and have negative body images.  

Earnings of highest paid female athlete in 2013

She led the U.S. to basketball gold in 1984 Olympics