CMU to add more women’s sports even though there's very little interest

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2012-01-22 19:07

Article here. Excerpt:

'In an effort to prove compliance with the gender equality law, CMU issued a survey to all students in the spring of 2009 gauging the interest and ability of female athletes. The survey, which had about 2,200 respondents, concluded there was a very limited interest in adding new women’s sports. However, a repeal in April 2010 – the George W. Bush administration had ruled a survey was sufficient enough – forced schools to adhere to more stringent criteria to prove that they were compliant.

“We went through process and the survey showed that there was not a substantial interest level in additional sports — that we were meeting the needs,” Heeke said. “When the Obama administration came in, that tool was deemed non-compliant and the Office of Civil Rights came back and said you can’t use that anymore. When that went away, we had to start over.”'

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I'm curious if, perhaps, taking the money needed to budget for these women's sports teams from areas where women tend to show more interest then men, such as social clubs and organizations, might be a way to balance a schools title IX budget problems. They can reduce gender inequality in both area's.

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Submitted by Kratch on Tue, 2012-01-24 20:18