Getting In The Game

Women athletes & Banana Slug from UC Santa Cruz

University of Pittsburgh law professor Deborah Brake's new book Getting in the Game examines the history of Title IX, a law that is much discussed but often misunderstood. She says Title IX has succeeded in encouraging women and girls to become more involved in athletics over the last 40 years, but there is still work to do to achieve the goals lawmakers desired when they wrote the law in 1972.

Audio Embed: WBUR & NPR's Only A Game 8/14/10, Host: Bill Littlefield.