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Report: athletics still shorts women.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)

Women in Higher Education

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Amid claims that male student athletes are paying the price for Title IX compliance, the Women's Sports Foundation released a new study showing that both women's and men's college sports opportunities have increased in the last 10 years.

But women still have not reached proportionality. While women made up almost 56% of the student population in 2004-2005, they were only 42% of the college athletes.

Meanwhile, men's sports opportunities have changed. The number of Division I male athletes has decreased, ...

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