This report asserts that there are several findings and recommendations which have been included in the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics' report, which made recommendations for substantial changes to current Title IX guidelines and policies. It fundamentally disagrees with the tenor, structure, and significant portions of the content of the…

Do women have the right to have the opportunity to participate on an equal basis as members of male teams? If the answer is "yes," the effects would have far-reaching consequences in professional and amateur athletics, college and university competition, and public high school athletic programs. (Author)

Although the women's sports movement has opened up unprecedented opportunities for some women, it has left completely untouched other pervasive inequalities in male programs and may actually have widened these inequalities. (Author)

Girls' athletics have grown tremendously since passage of Title IX, but attitudinal and financial barriers still inhibit full female sports participation. Girls too should have access to the physical fitness, emotional, and social benefits and status rewards accorded to athletes in our society. (Part of a theme issue on women.) (SJL)

This study examined the attributions of female athletes for their personal and their team's performance after winning, tying, and losing a competitive soccer game. Players' attributions were made to the internal factors of ability and effort and to the external factors of opponent difficulty and luck. (Authors/CJ)

Reports that the coverage of women's sports in "Sports Illustrated" did not increase from 1956 to 1976, although women's active participation in sports did. (GT)

The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory was found to be a suitable instrument for repeated assessment of athletes in a competitive sports environment. (MM)

Females at all grade and participation levels had significantly more favorable attitudes than males towards females in sports; both females and males in the higher grades had more favorable attitudes than those in the lower grades. (PBS)

The nature and pervasiveness of sex-based inequalities within collegiate athletics are reviewed with regard to constitutional mandates as interpreted by Title IX and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Special attention is given to the once discredited "separate but equal" doctrine. (LBH)

Using applicable common law and statutory standards, this comment examines from several perspectives the constitutionality of section 86.41 of the Title IX regulations. It is concluded that the alternative to section 86.41 and the entire separate but equal system is to classify by ability rather than by sex. (LBH)

Focuses on library collection development in the area of women in sports. Discusses Title IX, selecting titles, and prominent publishers in the field; and includes an annotated bibliography that includes encyclopedias, history, athletes, how-to books, coaching, general sports, magazines, and Web sites. (LRW)

This paper uses Peggy McIntosh's (1983) interactive phase typology as a descriptive model within which to characterize contemporary sport with respect to certain gender issues, accepting gender as dynamically and culturally constituted. The paper discusses possibilities for transforming sport by enhancing the appreciation of sport and enriching…

A number of factors have led to the dearth of qualified high school athletic coaches: an aging faculty, the gender equity promoted in Title IX, a shrinking pool of new teachers willing to coach, meager budgets, the explosive growth of sports such as soccer, and a hyper-competitive attitude among many students and parents. (MLF)

This study examined the sport participation patterns of 12 African American female collegiate student athletes using qualitative methods. Data were collected at a large midwestern university during the 1998-99 academic year. An emergent theme was the effect of silencing by the media, athletic administrators, coaches, and other student athletes on…

The monographs in this volume profile current information on basketball, covering a wide variety of topics regarding teaching, coaching, and playing girl's and women's basketball. Ten articles cover aspects of basketball ranging from history to nutrition and conditioning to techniques for high level competition. The titles and authors are as…