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• Position: Increase in number of girls participating in school sports - Brief Article - Illustration

Girls Join the Team

Anyone who has followed today's top-notch women's college hoopsters knows that women's sports have come a long way since the days of sparsely attended half-court games. Thanks to Title IX, a 1972 Federal law barring gender-based discrimination, women's sports have received a larger share of athletic budgets. With that has come a rise in the number of girls participating in school sports. The graphs below show the total number of high school students active in sports in selected years and female athletes as a percentage of each year's total. (Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.) Source: Women's Sports Foundation.

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1. In which of the following periods did the total number of student athletes increase fastest?

   (a) the early 1970s; (b) the late 1980s; (c) the late 1990s.

2. In which school year shown did the female percentage of athletes in high school sports rise the most?

3. In which school year did more girls participate in high school sports, 1973-74 or 1990-91?

4. About how many gifts participated in high school sports in the 1995-1996 academic year?

5. Which statement is not supported by the graph? (a) Boys' participation in high school sports declined immediately after the initial rise in gifts' participation, but then...