It’s been forty years since Title IV revolutionized school sports by making it unlawful not to offer the same number of sports opportunities to women as to men at all levels of education.

That was good news, and now we have some more. The increase in girls’ athletic activity that was heralded by the advent of Title IX is linked by several studies tp a 7% lower rate of obesity twenty to twenty five years later. (While this may not seem like a lot, no other public health or fitness related initiative can show such a correlation.)

Here’s to girls on the field, on the court, and in the pool!