http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/12/title-ix/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:56:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/12/title-ix/comment-page-1/#comment-185220 Anonnymouse! Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:05 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/04/12/title-ix/#comment-185220 There is one problem with Title IX of course. While it's great that women are getting opportunities to participate in sports just like the men, because it requires "equality" in spending it runs into a bit of a glitch. Whilst there are some women who want to participate in sports, there aren't as many as there are men. This essentially means that if, say, a college only has enough women to form one team, then only one team of men get to play. Because it would be "unequal" to have more men than women. This is the sporting equivalent of employers hiring due to some law that says they are required to hire "minority" staff. On paper it sounds like a good idea, but in practise it's just another attempt to fix an attitude problem with bureacracy. There is one problem with Title IX of course. While it's great that women are getting opportunities to participate in sports just like the men, because it requires "equality" in spending it runs into a bit of a glitch. Whilst there are some women who want to participate in sports, there aren't as many as there are men. This essentially means that if, say, a college only has enough women to form one team, then only one team of men get to play. Because it would be "unequal" to have more men than women. This is the sporting equivalent of employers hiring due to some law that says they are required to hire "minority" staff. On paper it sounds like a good idea, but in practise it's just another attempt to fix an attitude problem with bureacracy.

]]> http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/04/12/title-ix/comment-page-1/#comment-146200 Frith Woolf Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:24:33 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/04/12/title-ix/#comment-146200 This post just made my day! I discovered your blog about three weeks ago, and have since tabbed all the archives and am reading them one month at a time with my online newspaper each morning. I am a year of graduate study away from entering the working world, I'm very scared and lost, and your perspective gets me, if not less scared, at least more excited. I like the blog a lot. But I love the Title Nine catalog. I will probably never be that athletic, but the catalog makes me want to challenge myself. It makes me miss the strong women in my life who live in other states. It inspires me to be everything that is best in me, even if it doesn't inspire me to spend $75 on a skort. You are so dead-on! Thanks. This post just made my day! I discovered your blog about three weeks ago, and have since tabbed all the archives and am reading them one month at a time with my online newspaper each morning. I am a year of graduate study away from entering the working world, I'm very scared and lost, and your perspective gets me, if not less scared, at least more excited. I like the blog a lot. But I love the Title Nine catalog. I will probably never be that athletic, but the catalog makes me want to challenge myself. It makes me miss the strong women in my life who live in other states. It inspires me to be everything that is best in me, even if it doesn't inspire me to spend $75 on a skort. You are so dead-on! Thanks.

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