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how do i put this. the OP's absolutist headline is wrong. there are "some" female heads and assistants among the 100s of college programs that can be named as anecdotes to try and make the argument look silly.
my response is the "ratios" one of you mentioned. in HS TF i understand the participation to be roughly 55/45 M/F. so a sprinkling of anecdotal heads across 100s of programs actually tends to show a large male bias -- even for many women's teams. as he suggested, we see men as right to coach men, but also favorable for women. but women often are limited to coaching women or a specific event, and we thus have anecdotal numbers coaching men's teams.
the usual argument to attack this is to claim we'd get "worse" employees from letting women compete fully. since one has to bring something CV to the table, better than the next guy, to get a job, this is usually false. this actually reminds me of the recent efforts by white men to say their jobs shouldn't require a college degree. they tend to miss the point that women and minorities began integrating into the workplace in the past few decades, the application pool increased, and HR needs more ways of separating out the wheat from chaff. it is not so much that the job necessarily needs college education as that they decided that one way to shrink the application pool is to use college education as a weed out. if you refuse to play the game you are weeding yourself out. unless you shove minorities wrong side of the tracks and women back in the kitchen, it's never going to be as easy to get a job with little resume again.
there are some risks with co-ed coaching but we condone men coaching women but seem nervous other way around.
fwiw in D3 soccer chicago won the '22 men's title with a female coach, playing stout defense allowing very few goals all year. which covers a couple of the stereotypes, efficacy/success and the idea men coached by a woman might be soft. she then, as seems to happen, took a women's D1 job at denver.
year or two ago they played NYU in a game where both teams had a female coach. NYU has made NCAAs twice under that coach.
there might be some high elite situations where i'm not sure if a female coach could teach some pro athlete meaningful nuggets to make minor adjustments and improvements that winning medals is about. but i had a football coach in HS and a basketball assistant in college as TF heads. the HS guy was actually great but the college coach i am pretty sure any runner you could find, of any sex, would have been better.
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