An Anaysis Of Sexism Against The Female In Athletics

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since the law was enacted twenty-five years ago. But the world changes slowly. U.S.A. Today surveyed 303 Division I schools to see where Title IX has taken us in it twenty-five years and found that men still get most of the money. Taken together, the results are like a “good new, bad news” joke. The good news: the number of female athletes has increased 22% since 1992. The bad: for every one-dollar spent on woman’s colleges sports three dollars is spent on men’s. Female athletes get just 38% of the scholarship money, 27% of recruiting money and 25% of operating budgets. “ It is encouraging to see the increases for women but very discouraging to see that they are not really sharing equally in the money. The money side of the ledger still gets the vast amount of the money,” says Patty Viverito, Chairwoman of the NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics. The newspaper took a detailed look at the issue in late 1995, when it stated numbers for 1994 of the 107 Division ...

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For example, the Black Women In Sports Foundation has received a $50,000 grant form Athletic Footwear Association to conduct a program that will introduce African American girls and women to golf and tennis, and to each other in ten U.S. cities. The program to begin soon will train black women in the elements of sports and mentoring techniques. Then the mentors will be matched with girls who are interested in learning sports. “We want to create relationships that will continue as the adult and child learn the sport together,” said Gina Sloane Green, President and Executive Director of the Foundation “We are not trying to recruit adults who are experienced players. Instead, our ...

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