{"id":495,"date":"2011-04-26T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2011\/04\/26\/university-sports-teams-deceive-undermine-gender-equity\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:44:54","slug":"university-sports-teams-deceive-undermine-gender-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2011\/04\/26\/university-sports-teams-deceive-undermine-gender-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"University Sports Teams Deceive &#038; Undermine Gender Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title IX, passed in 1972,  banned sex discrimination in any federally financed education program. Over the next 40 years, the law spawned a cultural transformation: the  number of women competing in college sports has soared by more than 500  percent \u2014 to 186,000 a year from fewer than 30,000 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>But as women have grown to 57 percent  of American colleges\u2019 enrollment, athletic programs have increasingly  struggled to field a proportional number of female athletes. And instead  of pouring money into new women\u2019s teams or trimming the rosters of  prized football teams, many colleges are turning to a sleight of hand  known as roster management. Many are padding women\u2019s team rosters with underqualified, even  unwitting, athletes. They are even counting male practice players as women!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/26\/sports\/26titleix.html?src=recg\">This New York Times article details this deception<\/a> by colleges and universities in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me so angry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title IX, passed in 1972, banned sex discrimination in any federally financed education program. Over the next 40 years, the law spawned a cultural transformation: the number of women competing in college sports has soared by more than 500 percent \u2014 to 186,000 a year from fewer than 30,000 in 1972. But as women have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[979,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historypolitics","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}