female athletes wanted
The Wall Street Journal reports that many spots on women’s college sports teams are going unfilled as colleges struggle to fill women’s team. Even though Title IX effectively banned sex discrimination in college athletics, many colleges can’t get enough athletes to fill mandated roster spots. Some say there isn’t enough demand but others say it is a lack of recruiting budgets that’s the real problem.
Title IX legislation uses a three-prong test for equality in women’s and men’s college sports teams. But the main test used is called proportionality—there must be the same athletic opportunity proportionate to the enrollment of females and males in the student population. That means if 3% of the male students at a school are on college athletic teams, then 3% of the female students should have the opportunity to be on athletic teams.
And in other sports news, it was recently announced that both Wimbledon and the French Open will afford equal prize money to male and female winners.