Existing comment:
Breaking Barriers
Girls have always played sports, from all-girls baseball teams in the 1800s through pick-up games that occur in every neighborhood. Yet they faced cultural barriers (the idea that girls were not athletic) and structural barriers that denied them equipment and a place to play. The federal government changed that in 1972 when it added Title IX to the Civil Rights Act and barred discrimination based on sex and race. Adequate resources challenged beliefs that girls could not play. |