Watch now: Title IX ensured balanced cutbacks during pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic shutdown created financial pressures, particularly for Division I programs with lost revenue from the cancellation of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and uncertainty about whether football — which largely funds schools' abilities to offer Olympic and lower-profile sports programs — would go forward at all.
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Cindy Bremser had to borrow shoes for a race from her coach. Becky Johnson and basketball players endured tight quarters on the Lathrop Hall basketball court. Traveling was 'awful.' It wasn't easy for Badgers women's athletes in the 1970s.
As Title IX turns 50, a look back at the conditions for women's athletes at Wisconsin in the 1970s shows the law didn't flip a switch for equity but gave proponents a legal basis to push for change.
