{"id":621,"date":"2016-02-10T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/reflecting-on-40-years-of-title-ix\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:19:41","slug":"reflecting-on-40-years-of-title-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/reflecting-on-40-years-of-title-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on 40 years of Title IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3451\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bill-pierce.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3451 lazyload\" title=\"bill-pierce\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bill-pierce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/227;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bill Pierce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prior to the 1970s, sports for women were not common. That all changed with the passage of Title IX on June 23, 1972. Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon, Title IX promoted gender equity in all educational programs and is largely responsible for women\u2019s entry into most every profession that was once the exclusive domain of men. In an op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em>, Furman health sciences professor Bill Pierce reflects on the changes of the last 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the 1970s, sports for women were not common. That all changed with the passage of Title IX on June 23, 1972. Signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon, Title IX promoted gender equity in all educational programs and is largely responsible for women\u2019s entry into most every profession that was once the exclusive domain of men. In an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>, Furman health sciences professor Bill Pierce reflects on the changes of the last 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}