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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2021 11:41:45 GMT -5
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Post by bulkey on Jul 14, 2021 11:59:02 GMT -5
Good article, Ken!
There is an increasing number of female college presidents. I don't know why they don't put greater pressure on their ADs to fight the NCAA for gender equality. Pressure the presidents: write letters to alumni publications, ask questions at parents' weekend, make donations designated for women's athletics, etc.
If women wouldn't sleep with men who had draft cards back in the 60s/70s, maybe women shouldn't attend college football games. That would do the trick instantly! Aristophanes had the right idea....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2021 12:45:31 GMT -5
Good article, Ken! There is an increasing number of female college presidents. I don't know why they don't put greater pressure on their ADs to fight the NCAA for gender equality. Pressure the presidents: write letters to alumni publications, ask questions at parents' weekend, make donations designated for women's athletics, etc. If women wouldn't sleep with men who had draft cards back in the 60s/70s, maybe women shouldn't attend college football games. That would do the trick instantly! Aristophanes had the right idea.... Aristophanes ................ |
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Post by linkster on Jul 14, 2021 12:58:14 GMT -5
I'd like to see a budget breakdown of UConn athletics by sport and by gender. I think that there would be a lot of male sports that have much smaller budgets than womens basketball. Should those men sue for equal treatment?
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Post by bulkey on Jul 14, 2021 13:19:20 GMT -5
I'd like to see a budget breakdown of UConn athletics by sport and by gender. I think that there would be a lot of male sports that have much smaller budgets than womens basketball. Should those men sue for equal treatment? :-). That's not really the point, right? With that logic, why shouldn't women's basketball then sue to have the same budget as men's football? It's the global issue, as in what Ken linked: It is curious that college students are singling out the NCAA as the villain, as a 2017 report from the NCAA showed that the median Division I member school spent 42 percent of its total expenses on men’s sports and 21 percent on women’s sports. (The remaining 36 percent was spent on “unallocated and coed sports.”) At least two-thirds of the median school’s expenditures related to recruiting and coach compensation also went to men’s sports. So if spending is a signal of schools’ priorities, the inequities extend far beyond NCAA headquarters.I myself think the issue is a lot more complex than simply athletic budgets. We focus only on sports and not on the totality of extra-curricular activities. For example, it might (not saying it is, but might) be the case that other extra-curriculars have more women than men, and so are disproportionately supported there. Title IX, for example, focuses narrowly on athletics. I wish it would account for all activities, and we'd get a much fairer picture of gender representation/support. What's the difference between supporting (say) a men's club sport (rugby is often the case) and a dance group populated mainly by women? Only that one is declared "a sport" and requires Title IX accounting, and one "an extra-curricular" that is not included in that calculation. That seems like a false distinction to me. It might well be that there is a lot of "invisible support" for women's participation in college life already. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2021 14:51:08 GMT -5
I'd like to see a budget breakdown of UConn athletics by sport and by gender. I think that there would be a lot of male sports that have much smaller budgets than womens basketball. Should those men sue for equal treatment? If they've won 11 NCAA Championships, 1000+ contests / games and helped put UConn on the map; then by all means!!  |
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Post by linkster on Jul 14, 2021 15:11:23 GMT -5
I'd like to see a budget breakdown of UConn athletics by sport and by gender. I think that there would be a lot of male sports that have much smaller budgets than womens basketball. Should those men sue for equal treatment? If they've won 11 NCAA Championships, 1000+ contests / games and helped put UConn on the map; then by all means!! Are you advocating for a meritocracy? |
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