Pattishall Research Lecture - Jaime Schultz

About the presenter

Jaime Schultz is a professor of kinesiology with an affiliate faculty appointment in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Specializing in women’s sport history, she has published sixty articles and chapters, as well as six books, including Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport, Women’s Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know, and Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader, co-edited with Jean O’Reilly and Susan K. Cahn.

Schultz is a recipient of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and serves as co-editor for the University of Illinois Press’s “Sport and Society” series.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids sex discrimination in any educational program or activity that receives federal financial assistance. It is perhaps best known, however, for its influence on U.S. sport. On this, the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX, it is important to observe its significance as both a landmark piece of civil rights legislation and a public health initiative that has encouraged millions of girls and women to become physically active. At the same time, we must acknowledge that even after five decades of relative progress, we have yet to achieve gender equity in sport.

This talk is, therefore, a critical celebration that applauds Title IX, critiques its limitations, and offers suggestions for the next half-century, if not the immediate future.