Research & Commentary: Anti-Discrimination Statutes in Education

When government mandates social outcomes instead of letting market forces work, the results often are not pretty. Title IX of the National Education Amendments of 1972 has become a textbook example.

Touted upon its enactment 35 years ago as ensuring equal opportunity for women to participate in athletics at the collegiate level, Title IX has instead brought quotas and new forms of discrimination as byproducts of supposed gender equity.