The New York Times
By KATIE THOMAS
Published: April 25, 2011
Ever since Congress passed the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX, universities have opened their gyms and athletic fields to millions of women who previously did not have chances to play. But as women have surged into a majority on campus in recent years, many institutions have resorted to subterfuge to make it look as if they are offering more spots to women. At the University of South Florida, more than half of the 71 women on the cross-country roster failed to run a race in 2009. Asked about it, a few laughed and said they did not know they were on the team.
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/sports/26titleix.html?_r=2&hp
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, October 25, 2010
Delaware State University settles lawsuit on Title IX
delawareonline
School to expand women's sports, recruiting
By SEAN O'SULLIVAN
The News Journal
WILMINGTON -- Delaware State University has settled a class-action lawsuit that charged it was in violation of a federal law requiring gender equity in varsity sports.
As a result, the Dover university now plans to significantly increase its spending on women's sports and recruiting to bring the levels of female participation in athletics up to the federal standard.
The lawsuit, which had been filed by members of DSU's female equestrian team after the school announced it would be cutting their program for financial reasons, had been set to go to trial in U.S. District Court on Monday. But the two sides reached an agreement, details of which were not released until late Thursday.
Full Story: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101023/NEWS03/10230335/1006/NEWS
School to expand women's sports, recruiting
By SEAN O'SULLIVAN
The News Journal
WILMINGTON -- Delaware State University has settled a class-action lawsuit that charged it was in violation of a federal law requiring gender equity in varsity sports.
As a result, the Dover university now plans to significantly increase its spending on women's sports and recruiting to bring the levels of female participation in athletics up to the federal standard.
The lawsuit, which had been filed by members of DSU's female equestrian team after the school announced it would be cutting their program for financial reasons, had been set to go to trial in U.S. District Court on Monday. But the two sides reached an agreement, details of which were not released until late Thursday.
Full Story: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101023/NEWS03/10230335/1006/NEWS
Friday, October 31, 2008
Backsliding for Women’s Sports
Inside Higher Ed
October 31, 2008
Most of the major changes in the status of women’s intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women’s teams and female athletes.
Over the last five years or so — even as advocates for lower-profile men’s sports have continued to spar with women’s sports advocates about numbers and politics — the status quo has largely held, with the proportion of college athletes who are women staying relatively flat.
Now, though, it appears as if women are beginning to lose ground. A biennial gender equity report released without fanfare by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women’s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4. In the 2003-4 academic year, when the NCAA last surveyed its members, Division I sports programs spent an average of $7,285,500 on men’s sports and $4,194,800 on women’s sports, for a 16 percentage point differential (63 to 37 percent). In 2005-6, the year examined in the survey released Thursday, that split had widened to 22 percentage points, 66 percent to 34 percent ($8,653,600 for men’s sports vs. $4,447,900 for women’s teams). [Full story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women]
October 31, 2008
Most of the major changes in the status of women’s intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women’s teams and female athletes.
Over the last five years or so — even as advocates for lower-profile men’s sports have continued to spar with women’s sports advocates about numbers and politics — the status quo has largely held, with the proportion of college athletes who are women staying relatively flat.
Now, though, it appears as if women are beginning to lose ground. A biennial gender equity report released without fanfare by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women’s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4. In the 2003-4 academic year, when the NCAA last surveyed its members, Division I sports programs spent an average of $7,285,500 on men’s sports and $4,194,800 on women’s sports, for a 16 percentage point differential (63 to 37 percent). In 2005-6, the year examined in the survey released Thursday, that split had widened to 22 percentage points, 66 percent to 34 percent ($8,653,600 for men’s sports vs. $4,447,900 for women’s teams). [Full story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women]
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Despite Record Female Participation in Athletics, Percentage of Women Coaches Declines
PHOENIX
Coaching women's sports has become a man's world.
At youth, club, high-school, college and pro levels, men are dominating head-coaching jobs in women's sports.
Women's participation in sports is higher than ever, a success of the 1972 federal law known as Title IX. It prevents gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal funding. Because of Title IX, female participation in high-school sports has soared to more than 3 million. In college, it has grown from 16,000 in 1968 to more than 180,000. Yet the percentage of women coaching women's college teams is near an all-time low (42.8 percent).
Some say that trend has helped women's athletics. Male coaches bring tested, aggressive playing styles from the men's game that can work wonders with accelerating women's skills.
Others worry that one of the promises of Title IX is slipping away as female athletes see mostly men in charge.
``If women were entering the coaching ranks of men's sports, it wouldn't bother me as much,'' said Linda Carpenter, one of two professors emeriti at Brooklyn College (N.Y.) who have biannually tracked trends in women's collegiate athletics since 1977. ``Men have coaching role models available all the time, but women don't. That becomes very, very important.''
Coaches, executives and athletics directors point to several key reasons for the male hiring trend.
Finding the best coach, regardless of gender, often leads to a male, even for administrators who say they would like to hire a woman. The higher up in the athletic world the job, the more this is true.
``We are always vigilant about seeking the top female candidates,'' said Arizona State Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love. ``What you find is there are a lot less of them as the pyramid gets tighter at the top.''
In three years, Love has filled four head-coaching positions for women's sports. All went to men.
Jason Watson is the latest. He makes it a clean sweep in Pac-10 women's volleyball: Every team now has a male head coach.
Love said in hiring softball, water polo, soccer and volleyball coaches, the pool of applicants was as high as 10-to-1 male.
``It comes down to who do we believe can fit the competitive categories that we seek,'' Love said. ``If it's a man, it's a man.''
Title IX works against female coaches in some ways. When more jobs and money are pumped into women's sports, more men vie for those jobs. [To see the entire article, go to: http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11232.shtml ]
Coaching women's sports has become a man's world.
At youth, club, high-school, college and pro levels, men are dominating head-coaching jobs in women's sports.
Women's participation in sports is higher than ever, a success of the 1972 federal law known as Title IX. It prevents gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal funding. Because of Title IX, female participation in high-school sports has soared to more than 3 million. In college, it has grown from 16,000 in 1968 to more than 180,000. Yet the percentage of women coaching women's college teams is near an all-time low (42.8 percent).
Some say that trend has helped women's athletics. Male coaches bring tested, aggressive playing styles from the men's game that can work wonders with accelerating women's skills.
Others worry that one of the promises of Title IX is slipping away as female athletes see mostly men in charge.
``If women were entering the coaching ranks of men's sports, it wouldn't bother me as much,'' said Linda Carpenter, one of two professors emeriti at Brooklyn College (N.Y.) who have biannually tracked trends in women's collegiate athletics since 1977. ``Men have coaching role models available all the time, but women don't. That becomes very, very important.''
Coaches, executives and athletics directors point to several key reasons for the male hiring trend.
Finding the best coach, regardless of gender, often leads to a male, even for administrators who say they would like to hire a woman. The higher up in the athletic world the job, the more this is true.
``We are always vigilant about seeking the top female candidates,'' said Arizona State Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love. ``What you find is there are a lot less of them as the pyramid gets tighter at the top.''
In three years, Love has filled four head-coaching positions for women's sports. All went to men.
Jason Watson is the latest. He makes it a clean sweep in Pac-10 women's volleyball: Every team now has a male head coach.
Love said in hiring softball, water polo, soccer and volleyball coaches, the pool of applicants was as high as 10-to-1 male.
``It comes down to who do we believe can fit the competitive categories that we seek,'' Love said. ``If it's a man, it's a man.''
Title IX works against female coaches in some ways. When more jobs and money are pumped into women's sports, more men vie for those jobs. [To see the entire article, go to: http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11232.shtml ]
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