FILE - U.S. softball player Natasha Watley runs during practice Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Watley, a Black woman and two-time Olympic medalist in softball, started playing when she was 5. She did not have a Black teammate until she was a teenager and said there were so few girls of color who played with her and went on to college teams that she could count them on one hand.
Thursday is the 50th anniversary of Title IX and in the years since the landmark law was passed, profound strides have been made in women and girls' participation in sports. Women now make up 44% of all NCAA athletes, compared to just 15% in 1971, according to the Women's Sports Foundation. Nearly 3.5 million high school girls play sports, compared to less than 300,000 in 1972.
Natasha Watley, a Black woman who is a two-time Olympic medalist in softball, started playing when she was 5. She did not have a Black teammate until she was a teenager and said there were so few girls of color who played with her and went on to college teams that she could count them on one hand. “Even middle class families aren’t sending their kids to schools that have access to an equestrian team,” she said. “We typically are pushing African American women to women’s basketball and track and field because of those reasons.”
Those disparities in leadership and college athletic opportunities begin early in life, said Neena Chaudhry, general counsel and senior advisor for education at the National Women's Law Center. A study published by the center found that 40% of the country's public high schools are highly segregated, serving either 90% students of color or 90% white students.
Next, she's gonna visit a POPEYE'S and showcase her 10 piece meal.
The only thing she is only good at is pandering.
It looks like she's better at basketball than she is running the country
I wonder if she has made it to see the people at the border yet. We forgot about them. Are they still in cages?
I just love KamalaHarris too much. skeewee
Oh brother, people starving can't drive to work. Then this bullshit....FJB and Kamala.
Keep men out of women’s sports. TitleIX50
Clown world
She should be used to publicly embarrassing herself by now
Can someone give her some governing tips?
She’s a national treasure 👍
Title should read... ' VP Harris finally does Something'
She's used to tips...🍆🍆
Douglas is really helpful
This is news?
The same Title IX that this administration is trying to destroy by allowing biological males to participate in?
Look at what support and love looks like SecondGentleman ❤️❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
beautiful !
I bet she'll be the hoop when a bunch of dudes .....
It’s still strange to me watching so many people culturally appropriate a white sport.
Shes finally right, she is publicly embarrassing herself
This is the administrations idea of a replacement while Brittany Griner is “away”
See she is great on her knees.
Hey its Boo Boo wheres Yogi
Lol...her comment, 'I'm publicly embarrassing myself', yep, all the time!
Come on she’s had her best of three. Let someone else have a turn
Does she fail at everything
Cute, now get to work.
Visit the border now jfc
Hows that BorderCrisis she was put in charge of?
WHY SHOULD YOU BE SURPRISED. THAT'S ALL YOU DO IS EMBARRASS YOURSELF
Hubby to the rescue.
Only thing she has done right since taking office.
She should be made aware that this is one of the very few times where she didn’t embarrass herself
Trash
this is also harris in politics
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