You can help advocate, too, by conducting a simple evaluation of your sports program, documenting disparities between boys’ and girls’ facilities, and bringing them to the attention of school officials. You can ask the cheer coach, the band director, and the editor of the school newspaper to give girls’ sports equal time. And you can write your legislators to ask them to support gender equity in sports. If you have questions, contact the Women’s Sports Foundation (www.womenssportsfoundation.org).

Title IX has brought us a long way, and girls and young women have made tremendous progress. But there’s still work to do.

And you can do it.

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