Title IX is an American law, promulgated in the 1970s, that says that if a dollar is spent on a boy in an educational setting equal funds need to be spent on a girl too.
It is applied most openly in sport and is a big reason why there has been an explosion in sports opportunity for females in Canada and the USA. Essentially NCAA programs have to have balance. Of they have a men's hockey team they balance it with a womans. Football is balanced by softball and cheerleadimg and field hockey. Although most programs with athlete laden football teams never comply the at least try and that effort has provided tremendous sport and educational opportunity for women over the decades.
Not so much in Oh Canada. The tape delayed CIS does not have a Title IX type program in effect and that works to the detriment of women.
Two recent events shed light on this gender imbalance. One is Carleton's dropping women's field hockey, a move done at the same time Canada's 46th best university is planning on bringing back football, an all male sport that costs beaucoup d'argent. The second school to screw women is Saint Mary's. Saturday's Globe and Mail reports that SMU is going ixnay the ockeyhay to save a mere 100K while killing the dream of countless women hockey players.
WFDS
No comments:
Post a Comment