Should colleges drop men's sports teams and add female teams in order to meet gender-based quotas?

Answer 1

I assume you are referring to Title IX, a 1972 amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that bars sex discrimination in education. Experts say the way it's interpreted forces colleges and universities to abandon men's sports programs when not enough women can be found to engage in their own events, thereby evening up the participation rates.

There is nowhere stated within Title IX that colleges need to get rid of of male athletic programs to meet the gender quotas. To simply meet the quota, colleges would just need to add additional women's athletic programs. Because universities end up cutting male programs, instead of providing additional female programs, Title IX and female athletes have received negative feedback. Instead of blaming the female athletes for wanting to participate in sports that they also love and enjoy, people need to talk to school administrators who are holding on tightly to their nice, large paychecks, who refuse to re-allocate funds for additional female athletic programs.

I don't think that colleges should end up dropping male athletic programs to meet the quota. They should just add additional female athletic programs instead.

Answer 2

No, I don't agree with this at all. Dropping sports teams is unfair to men. And to be honest, if someone is truly interested in participating in a sports program at a school, why would they bother looking into a school that doesn't offer that sport? There are several schools all over the country that can offer a multitude of sports. And there's always one that's better than the other. I think people should just get off their high horse and move on to more important issues aside from women's rights, such as the war in Iraq, abortion, stem-cell research and issues that matter right now. Not whether or not a certain school has a certain sport offered to women or men.

Answer 3

No. Dropping men's sports to add female sporting events is not the answer. The sporting market is driven by want and popularity. Men's sports are just more popular in America than female sports. It is just the way it is. If colleges think they can change that by ramming female sporting events down TV viewers throats they are wrong. The female events will not get the ratings and will be dropped.

Answer 4

No. I think teams need to creat their own following and base what programs are funded on the publics demand and overall popularity of the sport ; fudning determines what sports compete and what teams do not.

You cannot drop mens football for womans football as that sport would not have much of a follwong or interest, would it? I think not.

Football has such a huge following it not only funds itself many times over, but funds othert under funded sports programs; this is typical.

Sometimes things simply need to unfold in culture and not be forced upon the populace for political correctness as that is prooving to be a disaster...

Answer 5

They should add women's teams, not drop men's. Sports programs at schools shouldn't be about tv ratings and winning championships. They should be about young people getting involved in fun physical activities that teach teamwork and discipline. Just because many women's teams aren't as popular as men's (and tell that to the people in Connecticut, jeez) doesn't mean that women don't deserve to play the sports they enjoy. That is the purpose of Title IX- opening up opportunities, not closing them.

Answer 6

Yes, unless a suggestion can be proposed to fund the additions of the womens sports or the keeping of the ones that they would drop. College like religion and polotics is another type of business that trys to keep fairness of equality in thier budget.

Answer 7

NO!