Editing Title IX (section)

===Steps from a draft to legislative act to public law===
[[File:Birch bayh.jpg|thumb|Senator [[Birch Bayh]] of Indiana]]
Title IX was formally introduced in Congress by Senator [[Birch Bayh]] of Indiana in 1971, who then was its chief Senate sponsor for congressional debate. At the time, Bayh was working on numerous constitutional issues related to women's employment and sex discrimination—including, but not limited to, the revised draft of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]. The ERA attempted to build "a powerful constitutional base from which to move forward in abolishing discriminatory differential treatment based on sex".<ref name="Bayh">Cruikshank, Kate. ''[http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 The Art of Leadership; A Companion to an Exhibition from the Senatorial Papers of Birch Bayh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228194809/http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 |date=December 28, 2012 }}''. (Indiana University Libraries, 2007), p. 43.</ref> As Bayh was having partisan difficulty in later getting the ERA Amendment out of committee, the [[Higher Education Act of 1965]] was on the Senate Floor for re-authorization; and on February 28, 1972, Bayh re-introduced a provision found in the original/revised ERA bill as an amendment which would become Title IX.<ref name="SenateIntro">118 Cong. Record 5802-3 (1972).</ref> In his remarks on the Senate Floor, Bayh stated, "we are all familiar with the stereotype [that] women [are] pretty things who go to college to find a husband, [and who] go on to [[graduate school]] because they want a more interesting husband, and finally marry, have children, and never work again. The desire of many schools not to waste a 'man's place' on a woman stems from such stereotyped notions. But the facts contradict these myths about the 'weaker sex' and it is time to change our operating assumptions."<ref name="SenateSpeech">118 Cong. Record 5804 (1972).</ref> He continued: "While the impact of this amendment would be far-reaching, it is not a panacea. It is, however, an important first step in the effort to provide for the women of America something that is rightfully theirs—an equal chance to attend the schools of their choice, to develop the skills they want, and to apply those skills with the knowledge that they will have a fair chance to secure the jobs of their choice with equal pay for equal work".<ref name="SenateSpeech2">118 Cong. Record 5808 (1972).</ref> Title&nbsp;IX became public law on June 23, 1972.<ref name="now">[http://www.now.org/issues/title_ix/history.html "Legislative History of Title&nbsp;IX"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624070911/http://www.now.org/issues/title_ix/history.html |date=June 24, 2010 }} National Organization for Women. June 27, 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=The United States Department of Justice|title=Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972|url=https://www.justice.gov/crt/about/cor/coord/titleix.php|access-date=November 12, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104121104/http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/cor/coord/titleix.php|archive-date=November 4, 2013}}</ref> When U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, he spoke mostly about [[desegregation busing]], and did not mention the expansion of educational access for women he had enacted.<ref name="Bayh" /><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-the-education-amendments-1972 | author = Richard Nixon|title= Statement on Signing the Education Amendments of 1972 | date = June 23, 1972 |editor1 = Peters, Gerhard | editor2 =Woolley, John T |publisher = University of California – Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project}}</ref>