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29th update on women in athletics: participation, coaching, administration.(NEWSWATCH)
The good news: More women are playing varsity sports than ever before, about 180,000 nationwide.
The bad news: The head coaches and top administrators of their program are less likely than ever to be women.
The future news: Because there are more women than ever working as paid assistant coaches and as lower-level athletics administrators, there is good potential for them to become head coaches and ADs.
That's the gist of the 2006 longitudinal national survey of Women in Intercollegiate Sport, the 29 year biennial update conducted by Dr. R. Vivian Acosta and Dr. Linda J. Carpenter, emerita professors of CUNY's Brooklyn College. It's funded by Smith College's Project on Women and Social Change, and Brooklyn College.
Participation: The survey found 8,702 NCAA women's varsity teams, more than ever before, up from 8,402 in 2004. The average of 8.45 teams per school is up from 8.32 reported in 2004, with about 180,000 female athletes now on campuses nationwide.
Before the 1972 passage of Title IX, which requires gender equity on federally funded education programs, there were an average of only 2.5 women's teams per school and only about 16,000 female varsity athletes on campuses nationally.
The most popular women's sports remain basketball, volleyball, soccer, cross country and softball.
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