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Related: About this forumUniversity of Texas’ Choice of Athletic Director Reveals Deep Inequality
University of Texas Choice of Athletic Director Reveals Deep Inequality
Mike Perrin, a lawyer and former college football player, was chosen as the new interim athletic director for University of Texas over Chris Plonsky, a woman who has worked in the athletic department of the university for a quarter of a century. The announcement of this decision has many pointing to the lingering gender gaps in athletics at the collegiate level and beyond.
Decades after Title IX was passed in an attempt to address and prevent sex discrimination, statistics show there is a major disparity between male and female head coaches in college athletics. According to NCAA reporting, more than 80 percent of men still make up Division I collegiate head coaches, and of a total 313 Division I athletic directors, only 37 are women. As the New York Times reported:
Its not that women arent qualified, or that Texas has something specific against hiring [Plonsky] for its top job. Its just that the sad numbers dont lie.
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This is easier said than done, as women at both the collegiate and professional level face massive inequalities. As Meg Linehan of Vice Sports reported, the salaries for professional athletes in the National Womens Soccer League and the National Womens Hockey League are below the poverty line. Similarly, more established womens leagues like the WNBA are paid enormously less than their male counterparts.
The United States womens soccer team made headlines this summer for both bringing home the FIFA World Cup trophy, but also for lingering disparities in pay coverage between the mens and womens teams. In this summers world cup tournament alone, the US world champions of the womens World Cup earned collectively $15 million- a stark difference from the $576 million earned collectively by the US mens team, who lost in the first round of the tournament last year.
At the same time, tiny victories are taking place for women in athletics. Jen Welter was hired as a coach for the Arizona Cardinals this summer, becoming the first woman to be an NFL coach. And just this season, Sarah Thomas was named the first female referee official for the NFL. San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon also made history as the first woman to coach an NBA team.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/09/22/university-of-texas-choice-of-athletic-director-reveals-deep-inequality/
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University of Texas’ Choice of Athletic Director Reveals Deep Inequality (Original Post)
niyad
Sep 2015
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)1. I wonder how well she interviewed
That is a huge part of getting hired. Experience matters but so does the interview. Also since she was part of the department, how were her annual reviews. Just bringing in more questions on why she was't promoted.
niyad
(113,348 posts)2. obviously since she has been there 25 years, her performance reviews must be okay.
of course, it is all HER fault, yes???? institutional sexism and inequality couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)3. Maybe yes. Maybe no.
As someone who works in academics, Sometimes it comes down to wanting someone outside the university.