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NPR Special Report: Benching The Patriarchy - 50 years of Title IX

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Fifty years ago, on June 23, 1972, the federal law known as “Title IX” banned discrimination based on sex in educational institutions. College sports had to change. NPR presents the never-told story of a pioneer who drove that change in the women’s basketball team at the University of Oregon, which is a Pac-Ten powerhouse today.