Ensuring equal opportunities for girls and women in sports and physical activity has always demanded s a team effort. Parents, coaches, administrators, politicians, athletes must all be dedicated to contributing to leveling the playing field. In this section, we provide you with information and tools to help make change on a local level and contribute to national initiatives.
Wanna Take Action? Here's How:
1. Educate yourself. Learn the ins and outs of the law and its interpretations and become an advocate for gender equity in sports. Visit the Issues and Research section of our site and peruse our Title IX articles.
2. Write a letter to your Congressperson. We've elected these people to represent our best interests, now is a perfect time to hold them responsible to the ideals of their constituents. The common belief of providing girls and equal playing field needs to be a bigger priority than special interest money.
3. Become a member of the Women's Sports Foundation. We, the national leaders in Title IX advocacy, have worked tirelessly for 25 years to increase opportunities for girls and women in sport and educate the public about this necessity. Join our team and begin making a difference today.
4. Review and connect with your local newspaper. The media needs to know when they are doing a good job. When you compliment the media, they will give you more of what they were applauded for. When the media covers women's sports the way you think they should, e-mail the editor, sports editor or station manager and tell him or her how much you appreciate the coverage. Likewise, the media needs to hear from you when coverage of women's sports is sexist, biased or simply not there.
5. Make a donation to the Women's Sports Foundation. Your donations help give us the fuel to do the important advocacy work that we do every day on behalf of girls and women. Beyond legal and public policy work, we give hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to provide opportunities for girls to play sports through our GoGirlGo! grants.
6. Support women's sports with your dollars. Like it or not, the business of women's sports is still in relative infancy compared to men's sports. Want to see women's sports thrive and grow? Go to a local women's college game. Buy season tickets to women's professional league games. When it's time to give gifts to others, think of purchases that pump money into the business of women's sports.