Brown University Settles Long Battle Over Women in Sports
- Two-decade-old pact has served as road map for Title IX
- Brown to restore two women’s teams, gets 2024 end to agreement
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Brown University ended a legal battle over women in sports that started more than two decades ago with a landmark agreement on gender parity and then burst back on the scene this spring.
The university announced on Thursday that it would restore to varsity status two women’s teams it had downgraded and that the pact that has governed the composition of its teams for 22 years would end in August 2024.