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In 1972 Title IX was introduced in education institutions giving female athletes more opportunities than ever and prohibiting gender-based discrimination. An unforeseeable occurrence resulting from Title IX was a drastic decrease in female coaching positions. Are you surprised? According to the Washington Post article called, Title IX was great for female athletes. And terrible for female coaches, it mentions in 1972 more than 90 percent of the people coaching women's teams were women. Today that number is 43 percent. By legitimizing women's sports, Title IX bestowed a new level of respect- and significantly higher salaries- on college coaching jobs, transforming them from passion projects for the most dedicated women's sports advocates to serious career paths.
At the University of Iowa, our athletic program is an exception. All of the women's sport programs, besides soccer, have a woman in the head coach position. Is the university trying to uphold its liberal status by hiring women to fill these legitimate and well paying positions? Or does the athletic administrative agree that women's sports are best coached by women? We see this the university using these female coaches to empower and education young women. Iowa sees the importance of teaching young women they can be in power and leadership positions instead of sticking to the old stereotypical gender role of women being quiet, weak, subservient, passive, irrational, etc. It is extremely difficult for young women to recognize and overcome these deep influences and it is an educator's responsibility to assist these young women that they can be successful in dominate leading positions. now.
REFLECTION - I choose to completely strip the original blog because I did not understand exactly what point it was trying to make. Although I did like that it proposed many questions to get the readers to critically think about the subject of women in lead coaching positions, but I think the readers needed a little more guidance. The new blog provides the reader with a little bit of background information about Title IX and the affect it had on women coaching women athletes. Next, I took a look at the University of Iowa women's athletic programs to see if they went along or against the grain of today's statistics of fewer women coaching women's sports. As it turns out the university has many female coaches so I then finished my blog with a gender criticism rhetorical approach.
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