Dr. Sharrow's book Equality Unfulfilled argues that the current state of Title IX policy undermines the efforts to achieve systemic change in college athletics.
Despite Title IX requiring women's equity in college athletics, women represented 56 percent of all undergraduate students across the United States, but only 42 percent of varsity college athletes in the 2021-2022 academic year.
In the NCAA's Divison 1, women now make up 47.1 percent of all student athletes. Yet 54 percent of all students in Division 1 schools are women.The difference between median total expenses for men's and women's programs at Football Bowl Subdivision schools has grown from $12.7 million in 2009 to $25.6 million in 2019.
Seventeen former and current women athletes at San Diego State University have filed a class-action lawsuit charging the university with sex discrimination for not adhering to Title IX guidelines requiring gender equality in college sports.
The latest report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida finds that women held the head coaching job for only 41 percent of all women’s athletic teams in the NCAA's Division I. In contrast, 95.8 percent of all head coaches for men’s teams in Division I are men.
At Brandeis in Waltham, Massachusetts, women’s teams are mainly coached by women, with only one of the eight teams led by a male head coach. Men’s teams’ head coaches are evenly split along gender lines, with three teams coached by women and four coached by men.
These new initiatives include creating student, faculty, and staff liaison committees to educate their peers about Title IX policies and resources, hiring an education manager to expand the university's training efforts, developing a new mandatory online training program for faculty staff, and launching a bystander intervention training program.
Administrative leaders at Vanderbilt University have partnered together to establish a collaborative approach to study and address key issues facing women on the university's staff.
A new study led by Colleen Ray, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln finds that sexual assault and misconduct impacts not only heterosexual women but also affects what the study calls "sexual minority men and women."
According to a lawsuit, Melissa Soboleski, the women's volleyball coach at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, earned $64,344 in 2016 while male coaches in similarly categorized sports earned as much as $120,872.
Professor Patricia MacCorquodale claims that she was underpaid for two decades. According to the lawsuit, when she was let go as dean of the Honors College in 2016 after 23 years on the job, she had a salary of $162,750 while the average salary paid to male deans at the university was $320,212.
Some 84 percent of senior woman administrators said that without the SWA designation there would be no women in important athletic posts at their college or university. Only 56 percent of athletic directors agreed.
