Positive Coaching Alliance Celebrates Title IX’s 51st Anniversary
06.22.23
In over fifty years since its passage, Title IX has made an incredible impact on opening doors to athletics for women, girls, and others. While so much progress has been made, there is more to do to widen opportunities and establish gender equity in sports. In your community, among countless ways to celebrate, share about, and advance Title IX, PCA’s Gender Equity Initiative recommends:
1. Reviewing our brand new resource – Recruit and Retain Girls in Sports Teams and Programs
2. Checking out Title IX infographics – from PCA for youth and coaches, co-created with the WNBA / NBA to better understand the law and how it can level the playing field at your school.
3. Visiting the Demand IX website – for resources and information about furthering Title IX gender equity in sport, including this digital action toolkit.
4. Utilizing PCA’s Game Plan for Girls in Sports guide – now in individual components for quick and easy review and sharing, with highlighted snippets below, and our Literature Review (of 100+ studies!) for supporting K-12 girls in sports.
- Why Girls and Women in Sports: Ten Benefits
- “Girls who participate in sports demonstrate higher self-esteem.”
- “Girls who participate in sports demonstrate higher self-esteem.”
- Designing Welcoming, Equitable, and Positive Girls’ Sports Programs: Nine Tips
- “Using simple surveys, small focus groups, and/or basic outreach to understand what sports girls want to play, and how, can help set up a lasting, successful program based on girls’ interests.”
- “Using simple surveys, small focus groups, and/or basic outreach to understand what sports girls want to play, and how, can help set up a lasting, successful program based on girls’ interests.”
- Age-Oriented Tips for Helping Girls Build an Athlete Identity in Sports
- “Ages 8-10: Building expertise balanced with joy. Help girls become more excited about mastery, performance and competition, while incorporating fun (e.g., new goals at each game).”
- “Ages 8-10: Building expertise balanced with joy. Help girls become more excited about mastery, performance and competition, while incorporating fun (e.g., new goals at each game).”
- Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Women Coaches and Coaches of Girls
- “Actively Recruit Women as Coaches. Personally ask women in your community networks to coach.”
- “Actively Recruit Women as Coaches. Personally ask women in your community networks to coach.”
- Co-Ed Considerations, Allyship, and Coaches of Girls: 10 Tips
- “Inclusion is key – If coaching a co-ed or mixed team, ensure girls are included equally and proactively in using the space, getting support, coach attention, and play.”
- “Inclusion is key – If coaching a co-ed or mixed team, ensure girls are included equally and proactively in using the space, getting support, coach attention, and play.”
- Overcoming Myths and Barriers: 10 Best Practices for Girls in Sport
- “Myth: Girls don’t want to play sports. In fact, girls want to play sports and enjoy sports, plus related physical activities.”
- “Myth: Girls don’t want to play sports. In fact, girls want to play sports and enjoy sports, plus related physical activities.”
- Gender Equity in Youth Sports to Level the Playing Field (+ Title IX): 9 Insights
- “Title IX is a federal law passed June 23, 1972 by Congress applying throughout the U.S., requiring gender equity in any and all federally-funded educational programs.
- “Title IX is a federal law passed June 23, 1972 by Congress applying throughout the U.S., requiring gender equity in any and all federally-funded educational programs.
- Gender Identity and LGBTQIA+ Resources
- Athlete Ally; Trevor Project; GLSEN
- Athlete Ally; Trevor Project; GLSEN
- Further Resources to Instill Gender Equity in Youth Sports
- Example: “HER TIME TO PLAY, a national initiative dedicated to championing change on behalf of girls and women and providing them with ways to connect, collaborate, and actively engage with one another through the game of basketball.”
5. Tuning in – to the upcoming recap of our June webinar on Recruiting and Retaining Girls in Sports.
Join PCA in celebrating the 51st anniversary of Title IX not just on June 23, 2023, but every day, all year!