Although now over a decade old, Jessica Gavora's book is still the best out there on the morals legislation known as Title IX, whose deleterious effects include a) decreased efficiency (and increased costs) in college sports, and b) the fueling of an 'affirmative action' industry of sexist lawyers and advocacy groups. (Among these last are numbered the Womens Sports Foundation, the OCR, the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force, American Association of University Women, and the National Women's Law Center, all uniformly led by highly capable lawyers and bureaucrats capable of pushing the law far beyond where it was ever intended, with the purpose of privileging women legally at the expense of men.)
In sports specifically, since Title IX mandates that men and women participate equally even though women generally are not as interested, male sports (as for example wrestling) are thus a typical casualty, with young men who would like to play unable to do so because their college is forced, at the risk of litigation or losing funding, to cut their team so that a (feministically envisioned statistical) 'gender balance' will be achieved.
Title IX's contrafactual foundational ideology and dysfunctional results don't end with sports, but continue to other areas of gender interest and relations as well-one being female participation in technology and the 'hard sciences'. Here, again, women on their own freely choose not to study these subjects as much as men, but, instead of accepting that these differences are natural, feminist thinkers such as Andrea Dworkin, Catherine MacKinnon, and others, and the federal and state courts who accept their Dworkin-in-Wonderland reasoning, fantasize that they must be due to sexism and continued patriarchal dominance-allowing them to thus use Title IX to grab more state funding for women.
Among many other points, Gavora also discusses:
a) how Title IX is often accredited by liberal thinkers and the media for being responsible for increasing female participation in college sports in the seventies and eighties-but, as with other social phenomenon like the long-time trend towards reduced rates of poverty before the introduction of Great Society programs, these effects were likely already occuring in civil society and would have continued. Thus, Nike's trumpeting of the U.S. Women's 1999 World Cup Soccer victory, as due to Title IX, is likely pure flattery, and an abject attempt to 'validate' its client base. Does anyone happen to remember the U.S. Women's previous World Cup win over Norway? In 1991?
b) the feminist hatred of football and envy of its huge funding stream,
c) the feminist indifference to the harms visited upon young men by their legislative and bureaucratic overreach,
d) the formulaic application of the equality principle, wasting resources in many different ways (such as in one instance discarding an old softball stadium because because it wasn't exactly proportional to the more modern one for the mens baseball team),
e) the inane refusal to let men's sports teams even PAY THEIR OWN WAY in order to continue their existence,
f) the head-scratching attempt to make colleges legally culpable in somehow not creating interest among women in general for increased sports participation-as if colleges should somehow have the ability to propagandize women from cradle to high school and inculcate in them the degree of love of sports only found among lesbian women, and
g) the fact that many young college women, seeing the damage wrought to their male friends by this legislation and these out-of-control bureaucracies, also dislike the effects of Title IX.
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