{"id":1293,"date":"2008-10-31T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2008-10-31T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:12:07","slug":"bad-news-for-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/31\/bad-news-for-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Women&#8217;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/10\/31\/women\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/s2d1.turboimagehost.com\/t\/866155_hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Inside Higher Ed reports<\/a> that women&#8217;s sports teams on college campuses are losing ground.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/wps\/ncaa?ContentID=39997\">biennial gender equity report<\/a> released yesterday (&#8220;without fanfare&#8221;) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/wps\/ncaa?ContentID=39997\">National Collegiate Athletic Association<\/a> finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4.\u00c2\u00a0 And we thought Title IX was, um, safe?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports and $4,194,800 on women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports, for a 16 percentage point differential (63 to 37 percent).<\/li>\n<li>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports vs. $4,447,900 for women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teams).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Football and men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basketball are responsible for most of the diverging fortunes of men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports programs. The average Division I college spent $7,095,000 of the $8,653,600 it laid out on men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teams on those two sports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donna_Lopiano\">Donna A. Lopiano<\/a>, former head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenssportsfoundation.org\/\">Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sports Foundation<\/a> and now president of the consulting firm Sports Management Resources, attributes the decline in support for women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports to the slowdown in the growth of participation of female athletes in high school and college and&#8211;guess what&#8211;a tightening economy.<\/p>\n<p>Says Lopiano, &#8220;Add in the continued arms race in men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s football and basketball, in particular the academic support building arms race and assistant coach salaries,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inevitable that athletics departments will have trouble finding enough money to go around.<\/p>\n<p>Lopiano also added that <strong>the Education Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office for Civil Rights has largely stopped enforcing Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more on what&#8217;s currently going on around Title IX, do check out this blog we recently added to the blogroll, called <a href=\"http:\/\/title-ix.blogspot.com\/\">Title IX Blog<\/a>, which is also where I found the eerie yet entirely a propos image accompanying this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed reports that women&#8217;s sports teams on college campuses are losing ground. A biennial gender equity report released yesterday (&#8220;without fanfare&#8221;) by the National Collegiate Athletic Association finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4.\u00c2\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21308,10649,21637,21932,21933],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donna-lopiano","tag-inside-higher-ed","tag-national-collegiate-athletic-association","tag-womens-sports","tag-womens-sports-foundation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}