Is Your School Treating Female Athletes Fairly? Should You Ask For Equality?
That’s a good question; one Champion Women has worked hard to help you answer.
Champion Women has taken the data that colleges and universities are required to report to the Department of Education, and we’ve made it user-friendly. That data is called the “Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act” – or “EADA” – the raw data is available here: https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/
We’ve downloaded that data, crunched the numbers, and calculated how far off schools are from gender equality in scholarship dollars, participation opportunities, and benefits (using recruiting spending as a proxy). We’ve given every school a pass/fail grade for each of those categories and an overall pass/fail grade for each school. A school must pass all three categories to pass overall – because there’s no such thing as “partial” equality.
We hope you’ll check out your school and then contact us at Champion Women to remedy this unlawful sex discrimination! supportwomen@ChampionWomen.org
Champion Women · Title IX Scorecard
Is your school keeping its promise to women athletes?
Federal law requires colleges to give women a fair shot at sports. Most don’t. Find your school and see where it stands.
A–F
Search for your school above to see its Title IX scorecard.
How the grade works
- Three tests, no partial credit
- A school must pass all three measures to pass overall — because there’s no such thing as partial equality. Grades use the most recent federal EADA data (2024–25 reporting year).
- Athletic opportunities
- Whether women get roster spots in proportion to their enrollment, after removing male practice players. The gap is how many more opportunities women would need to reach parity.
- Athletic scholarships
- Whether scholarship dollars are split in line with the share of athletes. The gap is the additional aid women would need for an equal share.
- Recruiting spending
- Recruiting dollars as a proxy for institutional investment. The gap is the additional recruiting money needed to match the men’s program.
View the complete data set in a sortable, filterable Google Sheet.
Search for your school in Champion Women’s database!
You have so many options!
- Search for your school. “Duke” or “Chapel Hill” or “Nebraska” in the search tab.
- Search for “NCAA Division I-FBS” or “NJCAA” or “CCCAA” in the search box.
- Click the “+” icon on the school name to see all of the data fields available for any school.
- Or you can download the whole Google Sheet with the complete dataset. There, you can find a lot more information in the datasets, such as the duplicated and unduplicated counts, how many women are double-triple counted, and how many male practice players your school has. Our online version of the table has been simplified to improve performance.
If you’re at the school, you probably already have a pretty good idea about whether males and females are being treated equally. It doesn’t take a lawyer or mathematician to see enormous differences in softball v. baseball facilities. Yup, that’s probably sex discrimination, in violation of many laws.
That said, if you’re at the school, you probably already have a pretty good idea about whether males and females are being treated equally. It doesn’t take a lawyer or mathematician to see enormous differences in softball v. baseball facilities. Yup, that’s probably sex discrimination, in violation of many laws.
Schools’ excuses like:
“We offer males and females the same number of teams!”
“Sorry, we don’t have enough money.”
“Money from….
-a donor!
-a sponsor!
-television rights!
-ticket sales! … are all impermissible reasons to treat females less favorably. Under Title IX, a school is always responsible for treating males and females equally.
Want to see trends over time?
- You can also view the data from 2023 - 2024, 2021 - 2022, 2020 - 2021 and 2018 - 2019.
- Keep in mind that a lot of the data was skewed during covid, as teams didn’t compete in 2020 or 2021.
It should be noted that the pass/fail indications on this table cannot possibly capture the full picture of Title IX compliance. The data in this table can make it easier to assess whether a school is providing equal participation opportunities and scholarship dollars.
The Department of Education’s Title IX regulations require that recipients of Federal financial assistance that operate or sponsor interscholastic, intercollegiate, club or intramural athletics must provide equal athletic opportunities for members of both sexes. This includes:
- the provision of equipment and supplies;
- scheduling of games and practice time;
- travel and per diem allowances;
- opportunity for coaching and academic tutoring;
- assignment and compensation of coaches and tutors;
- provision of locker rooms, and practice and competitive facilities;
- provision of medical and training facilities and services;
- housing and dining services;
- publicity;
- recruitment; and
- support services
Follow this LINK for more information from the Department of Education on how to assess "equal treatment"