Editing Title IX (section)

===Institutional requirements===
Athletic equality requirements were later set by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, first in 1979 and later followed by several clarifications and amendments.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-28 |title=Athletics |url=https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/frontpage/pro-students/issues/sex-issue04.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105235854/https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/frontpage/pro-students/issues/sex-issue04.html |archive-date=2024-01-05 |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=www2.ed.gov |language=en}}</ref> To meet the requirements, schools must pass at least one of three tests measuring sex equality among athletics the school offers.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncwge.org/PDF/TitleIXat35.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316140025/http://www.ncwge.org/PDF/TitleIXat35.pdf |archive-date=2008-03-16 |url-status=live|title=A Report of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education|date=2008|work=Title IX at 35|access-date=December 5, 2019}}</ref> These tests consist of proportional numbers of males and females participating, whether or not the school is making an effort to increase the number of the unrepresented sex, if the school has a certain history of one specific sex dominating the numbers of athletes in a given sport, and whether or not the school is showing an effort to expand the program to the other sex.<ref name=":1" />