The article describes the current situation in that more men are participating than women. It doesn't provide a rationale as to why it is necessary. More women major in nursing. Does that fact also justify passing a lw requiring that colleges establish a separate set of scholarships only for males in nursing which equals the number available to females?
Tell us how men have been systematically excluded from nursing major throughout history.
If that is the case, then there must be 9.9 less scholarships available to men on the other teams. For example, Men's Tennis 3 & Women's Tennis 5, Men's CC 6 & Women's CC 8, and so forth, until there are 9.9 less for men. It would be better to just add a men's soccer team and have an equal number of sports.
What is the total number of scholarships for men and women at the school?
What is the total number of men and women among all full-time students?
If the student body is majority women, then it makes sense to offer more athletic scholarship to women.
This data misrepresents the situation. Women are far less interested in sport than men. If there were too few roster spots, the competition for them among women would be incredible. Instead, it rarely is. Almost every male athlete has a story about women who were on the team as title ix req spot fillers. Without college coaches bending over backwards to recruit, these spots would go unfilled, whereas on the men's side the coaches don't need to do much of anything at all - the athletes contact them!
Agreed. If title IX disappeared tomorrow, colleges and universities would continue to fully support women’s sports. The left wants people to think that colleges in universities, run entirely by radical leftists, would revert to some imaginary patriarchal dystopia if Title IX went away.
Even the most conservative colleges like Liberty and BYU would continue to support women's sports. Title IX is no longer needed. The difference would be that scholarship money could be awarded equitably between men and women, women who were just there for social hour wouldn't get roster spots, and men's roster sizes might increase at some schools were there is incredible competition to make teams.
I wish we put as much effort into protecting the 15 amendment as we do title ix.
You are flat wrong. Schools who don't have big budgets (most of them) would drop most non-revenue sports (men's or women's if they could)... actually very soon that's exactly what will be happening.
Considering that women's sports never make a profit, why do they have give equal scholarship $ to both men and women?
Tell me you are sexist without telling me you are sexist. Can we also all take a moment and smile that 85 women get football scholarships every year.
They can make a profit if people like you don't avoid them 24/7. They are actually fun(not the WNBA) if you just watch them. Its pretty well known that if things like this aren't ensured its gonna go straight to only white males getting any money. Believe me this is well documented.
Back in the day women were disadvantaged - not allowed to attend college or play sports. Title IX went far beyond reversing this to making men disadvantaged in terms of college admissions, sports roster spots, and athletic scholarships. It’s still there because of politics - doing something perceived to be against women would be political suicide.
Agreed. If title IX disappeared tomorrow, colleges and universities would continue to fully support women’s sports. The left wants people to think that colleges in universities, run entirely by radical leftists, would revert to some imaginary patriarchal dystopia if Title IX went away.
If it doesn't do anything ignore it. You leave it alone and it will leave you alone.
If that is the case, then there must be 9.9 less scholarships available to men on the other teams. For example, Men's Tennis 3 & Women's Tennis 5, Men's CC 6 & Women's CC 8, and so forth, until there are 9.9 less for men. It would be better to just add a men's soccer team and have an equal number of sports.
What is the total number of scholarships for men and women at the school?
What is the total number of men and women among all full-time students?
If the student body is majority women, then it makes sense to offer more athletic scholarship to women.
And if the student body is majority men, then it makes sense to offer more athletic scholarship to men. But that's illegal, isn't it?
Considering that women's sports never make a profit, why do they have give equal scholarship $ to both men and women?
Tell me you are sexist without telling me you are sexist. Can we also all take a moment and smile that 85 women get football scholarships every year.
They can make a profit if people like you don't avoid them 24/7. They are actually fun(not the WNBA) if you just watch them. It’s pretty well known that if things like this aren't ensured it’s gonna go straight to only white males getting any money. Believe me this is well documented.
The opinion isn’t sexist, they just believe that everything in the world including public institutions value should be based on its profitability
There is a Division 2 school in my town. They have M/W Basketball, M/W Cross Country, M/W Golf, M/W Tennis, M/W Track and Field, M Baseball, W Softball, and W Soccer. I understand how football can cause a need for more women's sports than men's to meet the Title IX standards, but the school does not have football. It has identical sports, male and female, except for having only a women's soccer team. Sounds like a Title IX violation to me
Have you looked at the roster sizes for baseball (about 40) and softball (about 20)? That is what they are trying to offset. And that is assuming the school is 50% males in the fulltime undergrad population. Given that most DIIs have more than 50% women, they probably need soccer to get to proportionality.
You might want to bone up on how Title IX compliance is determined.
There is a Division 2 school in my town. They have M/W Basketball, M/W Cross Country, M/W Golf, M/W Tennis, M/W Track and Field, M Baseball, W Softball, and W Soccer. I understand how football can cause a need for more women's sports than men's to meet the Title IX standards, but the school does not have football. It has identical sports, male and female, except for having only a women's soccer team. Sounds like a Title IX violation to me
Have you looked at the roster sizes for baseball (about 40) and softball (about 20)? That is what they are trying to offset. And that is assuming the school is 50% males in the fulltime undergrad population. Given that most DIIs have more than 50% women, they probably need soccer to get to proportionality.
You might want to bone up on how Title IX compliance is determined.
This is the flaw of title 9. It could be equitable number of sports, not number of scholarships. Or at least take the most popular woman’s aport(most likely basketball) and give it more scholarships, or (god forbid) reduce the number of football scholarships to starting positions, ie 11 offensive 11 defensive. The rest can be walk ons or they can split up the scholarships like the other sports do
There is a Division 2 school in my town. They have M/W Basketball, M/W Cross Country, M/W Golf, M/W Tennis, M/W Track and Field, M Baseball, W Softball, and W Soccer. I understand how football can cause a need for more women's sports than men's to meet the Title IX standards, but the school does not have football. It has identical sports, male and female, except for having only a women's soccer team. Sounds like a Title IX violation to me unless they just don't give as many scholarships to men on the basketball team as they give to the women's team, along with other sports. Women's soccer had 29 team members. That's lot of scholarships to deny men's teams.
If the school is large-majority female, it should more slots for women.
This is the flaw of title 9. It could be equitable number of sports, not number of scholarships. Or at least take the most popular woman’s aport(most likely basketball) and give it more scholarships, or (god forbid) reduce the number of football scholarships to starting positions, ie 11 offensive 11 defensive. The rest can be walk ons or they can split up the scholarships like the other sports do
Right. The real problem is football taking too many scholarships away from men in other sports. It's not Title IX and it's not women. I'm glad you got it right.
It is Title IX. That is the law that requires schools to give out an equal number of scholarships to men amd women even though men are much better at sports. Imagine a law doing that in any other aspect of college or employment. 50% of engineering professors should have to be female. 50% of nursing students have to be male. 50% of medical students have to be female. Sports have objective criteria. There should be one football team and one track team. The best athletes get the scholarship. Next you will demand that athletic scholarships be distributed by race.
There is a Division 2 school in my town. They have M/W Basketball, M/W Cross Country, M/W Golf, M/W Tennis, M/W Track and Field, M Baseball, W Softball, and W Soccer. I understand how football can cause a need for more women's sports than men's to meet the Title IX standards, but the school does not have football. It has identical sports, male and female, except for having only a women's soccer team. Sounds like a Title IX violation to me
Have you looked at the roster sizes for baseball (about 40) and softball (about 20)? That is what they are trying to offset. And that is assuming the school is 50% males in the fulltime undergrad population. Given that most DIIs have more than 50% women, they probably need soccer to get to proportionality.
You might want to bone up on how Title IX compliance is determined.
Hard to imagine the feds going after any college for not providing too many female sports as compared to men. I just can’t imagine it’s a priority.