<P> In 1970, Sandler joined Representative Edith Green's Subcommittee on Higher Education of the Education and Labor Committee and sat in on the congressional hearings where women's rights were discussed . It was in the congressional hearings that Green and Sandler first proposed Title IX . An early draft was authored by Representative Patsy Mink, with the assistance of Representative Green . In the hearing there was very little mention of athletics . Their focus was more specifically on the hiring and employment practices of federally financed institutions . </P> <P> The proposed provision that would eventually become Title IX was introduced in Congress by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana in 1971, who was its chief Senate sponsor throughout debate . At the time, Bayh was working on numerous constitutional issues related to women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment, to build "a powerful constitutional base from which to move forward in abolishing discriminatory differential treatment based on sex". As they were having some difficulty getting the ERA out of committee, the Higher Education Act of 1965 was on the floor for reauthorization, and on February 28, 1972, Senator Bayh introduced the ERA's equal education provision as an amendment . </P> <P> Prior to Title IX's enactment women were not given the opportunities that men were . Men were the ones given academic opportunities such as scholarships and funding while women were not viewed as equal . As a result, Title IX was created . Pre - Title IX in 1971 only 1% of the athletic budgets went to female sports on the college level . On the high school level male athletes outnumbered female athletes 12.5 to 1 . After Title IX, there was a 600% increase in the number of women playing college sports . </P> <P> In his remarks on the Senate floor, Bayh said, "We are all familiar with the stereotype of women as pretty things who go to college to find a husband, 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 absolutely contradict these myths about the' weaker sex' and it is time to change our operating assumptions ." </P>

The educational amendments act of 1972 was designed primarily for which of the following
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