Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Title IX" in English language version.
In 1972, 58 percent of college students were male and 42 percent female. By 2010 those numbers had flipped: 57 percent of college students were women, and that number keeps creeping up.
While HEW was working on its regulation, the NCAA and other football boosters came close to passing an amendment sponsored by Senator John Tower (R-Tex.) that would exempt 'revenue-generating' sports from Title IX regulation. That legislative strategy ultimately backfired. When the conference committee met to consider the education legislation to which Tower had attached his amendment, it substituted an amendment sponsored by Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) specifying that HEW's Title IX regulations 'shall include with respect to intercollegiate athletic activities reasonable provisions considering the nature of particular sports.'
