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Title IX When you think about women being oppressed or discriminated against, the first thing you think about is the suffrage or voting movement. You may also think about the women’s role in America’s work place, and how it has been a struggle to get a job let alone be promoted. Men have been discriminating against women since the beginning of time, making them feel as if they were subordinate and less worthy. When women finally got the right to vote, men thought it was the end of the world and that women were being given to much power. Women can now vote, and women many women are now at the top of many businesses, but still there is another aspect of this oppression, an aspect that many over look. What I am talking about is called equal rights at federal institutions or Title IX. In 1972 President Richard Nixon passed a bill know as Title IX. The purpose of this bill is to stop sex discrimination at federally funded institutions. This law can be applied to all facets of education, but it is most commonly affiliated with sports. On page