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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/title-ixs-36th-anniversary-time-to-celebrate-and-keep-on-working/">Title IX’s 36th Anniversary: Time to Celebrate, and To Keep on Working</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Martinique Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">We’re a couple days past the actual anniversary date, but still close enough to observe that title IX is now thirty-six years old.&nbsp; In June of 1972, the Title IX Education Amendment was passed and its passing has likely had a profound affect on many of the readers of Her Active Life. Title IX made discrimination illegal in college and high school athletics (and elsewhere in the educational system; in academics for example). According to a 2006 article in Facts on File* , “When Title IX was passed in 1972, fewer than 300,000 girls participated in high school sports. Today, that number has swelled to 2.7 million.” I was born just a few years after the passing of Title IX, and I am certain that the provisions of that amendment…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/title-ixs-36th-anniversary-time-to-celebrate-and-keep-on-working/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/title-ixs-36th-anniversary-time-to-celebrate-and-keep-on-working/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/title-ixs-36th-anniversary-time-to-celebrate-and-keep-on-working/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/title-ixs-36th-anniversary-time-to-celebrate-and-keep-on-working/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>