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Women Athletes: Are They Treated Fairly?
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Women Athletes: Are They Treated Fairly?
According to Wulf (1997), in 1972 there were only 31,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. Now there are more than 120,000 female athletes in the nation's colleges' (79). This is a dramatic increase in females participating in athletics. The increase, though, doesn't mean that women are getting more athletic money. In 1978, the federal government issued a law called Title IX that prohibits colleges and universities from discriminating against female athletics. Today, more females are getting money, but there is still a gap between female and male athletic money. Although there is a law that prohibits discrimination, female athletics still gets less money, fewer sports, and not enough fans.
As a female athlete I see discrimination first hand. When I started to look at colleges the first thing I looked at was cost of schools. One school that I spoke to said they would love to give me athletic money but couldn't because they were not given any athletic money to give out. Now this is unfair when the school's baseball team had 15 men on athletic scholarship. According to Holland (1997), for every dollar spent on women athletics you see two dollars spent on men's athletics. This statistic shows that the men's sports always have to be higher than the female sports. According to Lee (1997), in 1996 $180 million was available to women and double that amount for men. All these numbers show that females are clearly given less money than men to participate in sports. Although there is a law that requires schools to have gender equity, there is still more that needs to be done to help improve the school system. Even though there are less female sports at some schools less money is spent on female sports.
Most colleges and universities have more male sports than female sports. Wulf (1997) states that females are only offered 7.5 teams per college. Most colleges offer males...Read entire document
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