More bad news on the employment front. Where female coaches, administrators and other sport employees occupied close to 90% of all job in women’s high school and university sports, their numbers have decreased drastically.
When money started flowing into women’s sports because of Title IX, men’s sports departments sought to control it by putting men’s and women’s sports under one administrative structure, with males occupying the top athletic director positions and controlling the hiring.
As you can see, they have a tendency to hire people who look just like them.
The 44% of female coaches represents lowest total since the passage of Title IX.
Coaches of women’s teams make 61% of the salaries of the coaches of men’s teams.
The higher the status and salary of the job, the less likely a women is in it.
