What Factors Contribute to the Perpetuation of Sex Discrimination in Educational Sport?
In the arena of educational sport a number of current and historical factors have contributed to the perpetuation of sex discrimination: • Historically, women’s sports used to be housed within women’s physical education departments, separate from men’s physical education and men’s athletics. In these departments, women held 90% of the coaching positions and all of the administrative positions. When Title IX was adopted in 1972, the control of women’s sports moved under previously all male men’s athletics departments and athletics directors who were primarily male. The head of women’s sports lost their jobs. As a result of this separation of women’s sport from women’s physical education, women’s sports also lost the protection of of tenured and powerful female faculty members. • The separation of women’s sport from faculty control subjected it to total control by male athletic business model where women’s sports was an underdeveloped product and not valued. • Faced with fears of litigat
