Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Gender Equality in Sports
This article talked about how male teams get more money in athletics than female. The study showed that although women and men enroll in the schools in roughly equal numbers, men athletes outnumber women athletes by 50%, get about 70% of athletic scholarship money, 77% of operating money and 83% of recruiting money. Equality has a price, and nothing underlines it more than the disparity in the dollars spent on women and men athletes in higher education. What do you all think about this? This obviously isn't fair, but what are we to do about it?
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This is how things were in my high school. The males sports received more money for uniforms and renovations for the fields. The football field was rebuilt along with a practice field and the girls continued to share one softball field among 3 teams. That was pretty ridiculous. I wish it could be more equal, but I think until people agree that men and women sports are just as good entertainment it will always be more money for male sports.
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