It is important to distinguish
between meeting academic requirements through mastery of an accepted curriculum, in or out of class, and self - directed study.
Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity
between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to
meet one of three different
requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching,
academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).