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Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.

FILE - U.S. women's basketball coach Pat Summitt is carried off by members of the team following their 85-55 Olympic gold medal win over South Korea in Los Angeles, Aug. 8, 1984. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo, File) FILE - South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley cuts the net after a college basketball game in the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament against UConn Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Minneapolis. South Carolina won 64-49 to win the championship. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) FILE - Danica Patrick of Andretti Green Racing poses with trophy on the podium after winning the Bridgestone Indy Japan 300 mile auto race on the 1.5-mile oval track at Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, northeast of Tokyo Sunday, April 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File) FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2014, file photo, Becky Hammon takes questions from the media at the San Antonio Spurs practice facility after being introduced as an assistant coach with the team, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Bahram Mark Sobhani, File) FILE - The United States' team celebrate with the trophy after winning the Women's World Cup final soccer match between against Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, Serena Williams holds up a finger and her trophy after defeating her sister, Venus, in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File) FILE - Vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale, right, and congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro stand before a packed house at the State Capitol of the Minneapolis House of Representatives in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday afternoon, July 12, 1984. Mondale announced Ferraro, from New York, as his vice presidential running mate. (AP Photo/Larry Salzman, File) FILE - Louisiana Tech women's basketball coach Sonja Hogg is carried off the floor of McArthur Court in Eugene, Ore, following the Lady Techsters 79-59 win over Tennessee in the AIAW National Basketball Championship, March 29, 1981. (AP Photo/Harley Soltes, File) FILE - First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Assistant Director of Civilian Defense, testifies in Washington D.C. on Jan. 14, 1942, before the Tolan Special House Committee studying migratory worker problems in connection with the defense program. The arrival of Title IX and its protections for American women was a long time coming and the result of hard work from the likes of Jeannette Rankin, Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Roosevelt, Patsy Mink and more.(AP Photo/File) FILE - Jeannette Rankin, 87-year-old former congresswoman from Montana, holds a news conference in Washington on Jan. 13, 1968, to discuss plans for an anti-Vietnam war demonstration near the Capitol. The arrival of Title IX and its protections for American women was a long time coming and the result of hard work from the likes of Jeannette Rankin, Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Roosevelt, Patsy Mink and more.(AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File) FILE - Rep. Shirley Chisholm D-N.Y., poses on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, March 26, 1969. The arrival of Title IX and its protections for American women was a long time coming and the result of hard work from the likes of Jeannette Rankin, Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Roosevelt, Patsy Mink and more. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry, File) FILE - Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe in the 1973 court case, left, and her attorney Gloria Allred hold hands as they leave the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC., Wednesday, April 26, 1989. . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - Ann Meyers drives during practice at the NBA rookie camp for the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis, Sept. 10, 1978. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, meets reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday Nov. 5, 1997, to call on the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Bill Lann Lee's nomination to head the Justice Department's civil rights division. The arrival of Title IX and its protections for American women was a long time coming and the result of hard work from the likes of Jeannette Rankin, Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Roosevelt, Patsy Mink and more.(AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File) FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1973 file photo, tennis star Billie Jean King speaks about sexual equality before the Senate education subcommittee in Washington, Nov. 9, 1973. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Sandra Day O'Connor waves after her unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in this Sept. 21, 1981 photo. Standing with O'Connor, from left to right, are: Attorney General William French Smith, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., Vice President George Bush, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - Jacksonville State University sophomore placekicker Ashley Martin (89) is all smiles after kicking an extra point in a 72-10 win over Cumberland in Jacksonville, Ala., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) FILE - In this Sept. 5, 1960, file photo, the medalists in the women's 200-meter event, from left, bronze medalist Dorothy Hyman, of Great Britain; gold medalist Wilma Rudolph, of the United States, and silver medalist Jutta Heine, of Germany, pose with their medals at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy. It has been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law by President Nixon. The measure barred discrimination against women when it came to programs that receive federal assistance. (AP Photo/File)
Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.