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Despite making some progress at gender equity, schools still provide fewer chances for women to play, hire fewer women coaches and spend less on women's sports. Rising costs threaten both women's and men's non-revenue sports.
Information comes from The Chronicle of Higher Education, which studied data on gender equity provided by colleges and universities under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act of 1994.
In the NCAA's Division I, the average school had 208 female athletes and 267 male athletes in 2000-2001, a significant improvement over 1995-1996, when they averaged only 143 women and 244 men. In 2001-2002, women were only 43.8% of Division I athletes.
But schools are doing better in gender equity in participation for women than they are in hiring coaches. In 20012002, only 2.4% of the head coaches of men's teams were women, compared with 54% of the coaches of women's teams who were men. Of assistant coaches, women are 5.2% on men's teams, while men are 46.2% on women's teams.
Pay is also disparate. The average salary for head coaches of women's teams was $46,352, compared with ...