
UK: Oxford University imposes quotas for women on basketball teams
Submitted by Broadsword on Thu, 2013-10-24 16:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'Oxford University will penalise basketball teams playing in an inter-college league unless they have at least one woman in.
The college basketball league introduced the gender quota in a bid to get more young women playing the sport.
But team captains say they struggle to recruit female students and that the new rules - which award one point for a win with an all-male team but three points for a win by a mixed team - are unfair.
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League coordinator Zoe Fannon, who imposed the quota, said the move was necessary to because many women at the university “didn’t know how to go about” taking up basketball.'
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If this penalty is fair, it
If this penalty is fair, it means women suck so bad at basketball that carrying even one of them on the team means you deserve triple points if you manage to win anyway.