Title IX covers all federally funded educational opportunities, not just athletics.

Evidence

In 1972, the U.S. Congress, led by Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink, passed a law that has helped ensure that women and girls are given equal access to educational resources in any educational institution that receives federal funding. While this law is probably best known for what it has done for women’s athletics, it actually applies to any and all forms of educational opportunities including vocational education, home economics, music and marching band, science and math clubs, and so on. It applies to boys and men too when they are unfairly excluded from any educational opportunity in a school or university, though clearly the effects of the law have been most visible in the lives of women and girls. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 768

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional/legal angle that links to the polyad’s law-and-institutions thread, parallel to ch. 4’s citizenship critique of law.
• QUESTION: Worth checking how Title IX’s history with Grove City v. Bell and recent attempts map to the book’s skepticism about top-down legal remedy.