What is "Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act"?I'm doing a paper on women's education. Can someone tell me what does this Act have to do...

Today, Title IX is one of the most famous pieces of
legislation that has to do with gender equity in education.  This title was meant to
ensure that educational institutions that received aid from the federal government would
have to treat men and women equally.  This law did not provide any money to educational
institutions.  Instead, it simply ordered them to treat men and women
equally.

This law continues to be famous today because it
ordered that institutions treat men and equally when it came to school sports programs. 
Before Title IX, there were very few girls'/women's sports programs in high schools or
colleges.  What programs there were were badly funded.  Title IX ordered equal treatment
for men and women, leading to the boom in girls'/women's sports that has lasted to the
present.

Please follow the link below for much more detail
on this law.