1.   Also a matter of gender equity.

2.   An Australian female superstar softball player recently spent a semester on the UCLA team, striking a brief, yet sorry blow for gender equity in college sports.

3.   And in this first generation reared under Title IX guarantees of gender equity in sports, the girls are jocks too.

4.   As surely as issues of gender equity follow issues of affirmative action, a new generation of gladiator is slipping on spikes and sneakers.

5.   - Instead of reaching gender equity, schools would only have to plan how to improve in it.

6.   After several years of fruitless meetings with university officials, Mahoney filed a Title IX complaint last year charging that the university is nowhere near mandated gender equity.

7.   But it does little to resolve a basic conundrum in the debate about gender equity.

8.   But so far, the question of gender equity in prescription drug coverage has mostly been one for the legislatures.

9.   Down in Ruston, La., meanwhile, the battle for gender equity is even more upside down.

10.   Especially when swimming has successfully exemplified the spirit of gender equity for many years.