Women’s Law Project Takes Pa. Schools to Task on Title IX

A report released by a Philadelphia-based non-profit has suggested that Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities are violating, at least in spirit, the gender equity law Title IX.   The conclusion was based on proportionality, one measurement tool used to determine whether a school is complying with Title IX.   In Pennsylvania, according to the Women’s Law Project, women made up 53 percent of the student population, but accounted for only 43 percent of the student athletes. That me