After several days of classroom lockdowns when violent brawls broke out inside Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas, Cherish Morgan had had enough.

The New-York Historical Society looks back on the landmark gender equality legislation and how it transformed women’s access to education, sports and more.

The large development within the variety of girls in highschool and school athletics — greater than three million in the present day, from 300,000 in 1972 — led to the rising professionalization of, and curiosity in, girls’s sports activities, and the objects within the exhibition exhibit that depth and development: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton’s gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams’s tennis costume, jerseys from skilled girls’s basketball and soccer groups and a basketball Barbie doll.

The enormous growth in the number of women in high school and college athletics — more than three million today, from 300,000 in 1972 — led to the increasing professionalization of, and interest in, women’s sports, and the objects in the exhibition demonstrate that depth and growth: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton’s gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams’s tennis dress, jerseys from professional women’s basketball and soccer teams and a basketball Barbie doll.

Three students were arrested Wednesday in three separate assaults on teachers and staff at Las Vegas Valley schools, the latest in a growing trend of violence throughout the Clark County School District that some experts and community leaders say is the culmination of a lack of comprehensive resources for children that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.

There is no question the NCAA women's tournament has grown over the past 40 years, but in many ways, the progress “has stagnated, compared with how the men's has soared,” according to Megan Ryan of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.