| | America has a hallowed tradition of producing tremendous women athletes long before the quotas of Title IX. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Wilma Randolph, Pat McCormick, Althea Gibson and Bonnie Blair were among the greatest. Pat McCormick, for example, won double gold medals in diving at back-to-back Olympics, with her second pair of gold medals coming only five months after she gave birth. But the Title IX quotas, enforced by an unjustified private cause of action, have choked off opportunity for women divers and many other promising competitors. Pat McCormick went on to initiate a special program for the disadvantaged after her athletic triumph. Top achievers among Title IX-funded women athletes today seem instead to be posing nude in Playboy.<ref>Dan Bickley, "Hats Off to Women with Clothes On," Arizona Republic, 1C (Aug. 29, 2004).</ref> This is progress? | | America has a hallowed tradition of producing tremendous women athletes long before the quotas of Title IX. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Wilma Randolph, Pat McCormick, Althea Gibson and Bonnie Blair were among the greatest. Pat McCormick, for example, won double gold medals in diving at back-to-back Olympics, with her second pair of gold medals coming only five months after she gave birth. But the Title IX quotas, enforced by an unjustified private cause of action, have choked off opportunity for women divers and many other promising competitors. Pat McCormick went on to initiate a special program for the disadvantaged after her athletic triumph. Top achievers among Title IX-funded women athletes today seem instead to be posing nude in Playboy.<ref>Dan Bickley, "Hats Off to Women with Clothes On," Arizona Republic, 1C (Aug. 29, 2004).</ref> This is progress? |