… researchers at U of T’s Centre for Sport Policy Studies conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date of gender equity in Canada’s interuniversity sport system …
… While men make up only 44 per cent of the university student body, they have 56 per cent of the varsity sport opportunities. The exact opposite is true for women, who make up 56 per cent of students and enjoy 44 per cent of the spots on varsity teams.
The numbers get far worse at the top, where women make up only 19 per cent of head coaches and only 17 per cent of athletic directors. …
Yet Canada has no “Title IX” legislation.
Seems to me that 44-54 is not bad.
But that the old boys club is alive and well in Canadian university hiring.
The study’s authors are tasking Canadian Interuniversity Sport and its four regional counterparts with three challenges:
• to revamp their gender equity policies based on these results;
• to create an immediate 50 per cent target towards proportional female participation; and
• to develop a plan for improving leadership opportunities for women in coaching and senior administration. …
Link to full report via that article.
Reverse discrimination is discrimination, regardless of whether you call it “affirmative action“, or not.
College coach hiring bias should be addressed, but I really don’t know the best way to improve those numbers into the future.
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