If you watched the world track championships, you saw American women do astonishing things. I won't try to list their accomplishments here. They were the best team by a huge margin. I will mention that the American women's soccer team is ranked first in the world. So is the women's basketball team. And why is that?
Title IX.
The country got something right. Even Nixon got this one right--fifty years ago he signed Title IX into law. The opportunities for athletic American women opened up. And American women, unmatched in their diversity, enrolled in the high level programs suddenly available to them. For some, especially those born into poverty, their intelligence, strength, speed and training have meant everything.
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