40 Years of Title IX: Helping Girls and Women Get In the Game

The President's Council asked: "How have the athletic equality provisions positively affected your life or the life of a female you know?"

  1. How have the athletic equality provisions positively affected your life or the life of a female you know? Use #TitleIXimpact
  2. Women responded about the increased opportunities, self-esteem, and life skills that they were afforded because of the athletic provisions of Title IX.
  3. 23June1972 was historical: #TitleIXimpact Along with all other women, I wouldn't be where I am today & impacting others without it. Thank u!
  4. @fitnessgov growing watching women compete in college sports, I knew that anything was possible for me #TitleIXimpact
  5. @FitnessGov We owe great debt of gratitude to the women who paved the way for equal rights for women in sports. #TitleIX
  6. Reflecting on culture-changing effects of #TitleIXimpact: Women have become better team players in an org, ready to work w & manage guys.
  7. Grateful for #titleIXimpact.Daughter @VickiBrick12 got full bball scholarship & U of MD college degree. In 60's grlsdiscouragd 2 run&train
  8. @fittnessgov #titleIXimpact. Took a tall gangly girl and gave opportunity. Coach Pinky Brown & others took it from there. #titleIXgrateful
  9. @FitnessGov #TITLEIXIMPACT the opportunity to express our true athletic skills in our choice of sport is priceless to female self esteem
  10. @FitnessGov Sports have been part of my whole life. From soccer as a 5yo to marathons now. I don't know life without sport. #TitleIXimpact
  11. See your tweet here: Share your story with #TitleIXimpact.

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The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN) educates, engages and empowers all Americans to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity and good nutrition. PCFSN is made up of athletes, chefs, physicians, fitness professionals and educators who are appointed by the President and serve in an advisory capacity through the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. [Please note: We accept comments according to the spirit of our comment policy: http://newmedia.hhs.gov/standards/comment_policy.html. HHS privacy notice: http://newmedia.hhs.gov/standards/comment_policy.html#YourPr­ivacy.]

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