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bounty44 -> RE: War On Women Alive And Well (11/5/2017 2:08:55 PM)
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there is indeed an arms race in football, and without a doubt, that's part of the problem. it throws a large monkey wrench into the equation and there's no "football" equivalent on the female side of things and that makes it worse. people for years have tried to get football removed from the "proportionality" accounting, but the pro-title ix people will not stand for it.
however, having a football team is of absolutely no solace to the athletes whose teams have been eliminated. as has been pointed out, some football programs pay for all or the bulk of the athletic depart budget so killing the goose that lays the golden egg is not an option. unfortunately that same mentality trickles down to all the levels of play and football budgets are much more costly than any other sport.
some of the pushback on the male side of the fight relies on the natural animosity men sometimes feel towards women. that is, the men are less likely to look at their football brothers as the problem, and more at the women who want equality---ironically when they (the women) continue to show they don't need it.
here's some information---a little dated, but nevertheless in the ballpark of things:
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At the same time, many contend that the current interpretation of Title IX by the OCR has resulted in the dismantling of men's programs, despite strong participation in those sports.[36] For example, though interest in the sport of wrestling has consistently increased at the high school level since 1990,[37] scores of colleges have dropped their wrestling programs during that same period.[38][39] The OCR's three-prong test for compliance with Title IX often is cited as the reason for these cuts.[39][40] Wrestling historically was the most frequently dropped sport,[40] but other men's sports later overtook the lead, such that according to the NCAA, the most-dropped men's sports between 1987 and 2002 were as follows: Cross country (183), indoor track (180), golf (178), tennis (171), rowing (132), outdoor track (126), swimming (125) and wrestling (121).[38]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
and a nice piece that does a good job of hitting the issue from multiple levels:
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...In passing Title IX, Congress had two objectives:
1.To avoid the use of federal resources to support discriminatory practices.
2.To provide individual citizens with effective protection against those practices.
In 1975 the final regulation of Title IX was signed into law and included provisions prohibiting sex discrimination in athletics. The regulations pertaining to athletics require that a recipient which sponsors interscholastic, intercollegiate, club or intramural athletics shall provide “equal athletic opportunity” for members of both sexes.
The Losses to Men’s Athletics
More than 2,200 men’s athletic teams have been eliminated since 1981 to comply with the proportionality prong of the 1979 Title IX Policy Interpretation (a quota system). Thousands of male athletes have been prohibited from participating in collegiate sports and as result, men’s athletic scholarships and coaching positions have evaporated. The law, which was designed to end discrimination against women, is now discriminating against men. For example:
◾Boston University dropped its football program due to Title IX pressures after 91 years.
◾University of San Francisco cut football after 64 years.
◾Colgate University no longer continues men’s baseball after 107 years.
◾Cornell University’s men’s fencing team was discontinued after 98 years.
◾Princeton University ended its wrestling program for fear of litigation due to an inability to satisfy “proportionality”.
◾UCLA dropped its swimming and diving teams in 1994 that had produced 16 Olympic Gold Medalists, 41 individual national titles, and a team title in 1982.
◾UCLA abandoned its men’s gymnastics team 10 years after it had produced half of the United States team that won the gold medal in the 1984 Olympics.
◾Since 1982, over 64 schools have discontinued swimming and diving programs.
◾355 men’s college wrestling teams (22,000 roster positions) have been eliminated over the past decade.
◾James Madison University dropped men’s archery, indoor track, outdoor track, cross country, gymnastics, swimming and wrestling in 2006.
◾Rutgers University eliminated men’s lightweight crew, heavyweight crew, swimming, tennis, diving, and fencing in 2007.
Men’s Olympic sports in colleges (such as, gymnastics, baseball, swimming, track and field, water polo, volleyball, soccer, tennis and wrestling) are disappearing under pressure to achieve “gender equity” under Title IX. Consequently, the pool of U.S. Olympic talent has diminished due to the tremendous loss of men’s Olympic sports in colleges. These cuts inevitably affect high school participation in that sport as well.
For example, in 1969 over 40,000 high school boys participated in gymnastics in the U.S. with over 230 NCAA schools sponsoring men’s gymnastics. Since that time, the sport has lost 92% of its varsity programs (2,544 college roster positions eliminated) and 75% of its participating boys. Only 18 schools sponsoring men’s gymnastics remain today (216 roster positions) and only two schools exist west of the Rockies – Stanford and UC Berkeley.
In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the U.S. sent 338 men and 264 women to compete. In 2004, nearly equal numbers of men and women – an estimated 282 men and 263 women – represented the United States in 2004. Consider a Washington Post Olympic preview entitled “Female Athletes Continue to Gain Ground” written in April 2004. The article celebrated the equality in these numbers as evidence of progress for women, but the number of women competing was essentially unchanged. The so-called victory for women was the elimination of more than 50 male athletes from the U.S. roster...
https://momss.wordpress.com/title-ix/
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