Women can succeed in whatever they set their minds to. Women are striving for equality in athletic sports. Women are looking for equal opportunities to participate in sports as well as coach and become officials and administrators. One of the biggest problems in women's athletics is the lack of women in leadership roles. According to this study the number of female coaches has decreased from 90% to 49.4% within the last four years, even after title IX was enacted.
To increase the number of women coaches, many women who work in athletics make a point of informing their students of the opportunities for female athletes to go into coaching or administration.Women coaches and administrators have started many groups to support women in their careers as athletic leaders and their personal fights for gender equity and to combine their efforts to further the status of girls and women in sports. One group was called Sports Need You, founded by Susan Schafer to increase the number of women coaches.
I think forming groups like this are awesome. Its putting the word out that women are serious about equality within sports and that we're doing something about it.
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That seems like such an enormous decrease for over four years, it’s almost a decrease in half of female coaches. I wonder why this happened. Was it because of some hidden form of discrimination of some sort, or because of our current economic issues? Perhaps it was that staffs were letting go of female coaches because they weren’t seen as a necessity to the programs, especially with all of the cutbacks lately. I like that they have formed groups to combat this decline, by creating an awareness of the issue; this is a very grassroots approach to the situation. This can be very useful in schools to help notify women of the various opportunities and options available.
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