[header] How to avoid gender discrimination in athletics [title] Assess the entire athletic program. [step] Whether a school provides equitable athletic opportunities for male and female students is evaluated across the board, not on a sport-by-sport basis. In other words, schools don't necessarily have to provide a girl's team for every boy's team. 
[substeps] When the ocr is assessing title ix compliance, it compares the school's men's athletic program as a whole to the women's athletic program as a whole. Title ix does not require schools to offer the same sports to both male and female student-athletes.