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Delve into gender equity in sports, Title IX, and equality debates through historical insights and current challenges. Learn about justice, fairness, and the evolving landscape of women's athletics.
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Justice/InjusticeThe quality of being just; just conduct; integrity; rectitudeIntegrity: free from moral corruption
Types of JUSTICE Procedural Distributive Retributive Compensatory
Compensatory Justice Compensating someone for a past injustice.
Punishment due a law breaker or evil doer. Retributive Justice Guilty!
Rules to designate fair-decision procedures, practices, or agreements Procedural Justice The Rules to Follow
Distribution of benefits and burdens usually by the state. Equal in this sense does not mean same. DOES NOT mean all lives must be equally good in nonmoral sense. = ? Distributive Justice = ? = ?
Games and recreation of all types for girls, by all means, which develop charm and social health, but athletic competition in basketball, track and field, and baseball? No Frederick R. Rodgers Gender Equity....
The problem I had in Wilmington was the girls in school...'Look at her throwin that ball just like a man,' they would say, and they looked at me just like I was a freak...I felt as though they ought to see that I didn't do the things they did because I didn't know how to and that I showed off on the football field...to show there was something I was good at. Althea Gibson Misconceptions
...no person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, be treated differently from another person or otherwise be discriminated against in any interscholastic, intercollegiate, club, or intramural athletic program offered by a recipient (Section 86:41a). Title IX....
The price paid here on the Palouse • Sue Durrant/ WSU • Ginny Wolf / Idaho – Yearly recognition of her dedication • Dorothy Zakrajsek • Bonnie Hultstrand • Kathy Clark
Having the same proportion of women playing sports as are enrolled as undergraduates. Having a history and continuing practice of expanding programs for women. Demonstrating that the women's sports program fully and effectively accommodates the interests of female students and potential students. Three Tier Points
The Right and Left of Title IX Politics • Jessica Gavore, “Tilting the Playing Field”. • Christina Hoff Sommers, “The War Against Boys”. • Donna Lopano – Women’s Sport Foundation • David & Myra Sadker
(1) unmet interest sufficient to sustain a varsity team in the sport(s); (2) sufficient ability to sustain an intercollegiate team in the sport(s); and (3) reasonable expectation of intercollegiate competition for a team in the sport(s) within the school's normal competitive region." New Interpretation
1995…a little old, but you’ll get the idea. http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/CHBGrant/present.html 2005 – women’s sport foundation http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/rights/index.html Christine Grant, Ad Iowa
Women are entitled to the same respect and concern as men in seeking excellence through the challenge of excellence in athletic competition. Varied Interpretations...
Does sex equality simply require nondiscrimination? Should coaches simply pick the best players, regardless of sex? Requirements of equity
Does sex equality simply require nondiscrimination? Should coaches simply pick the best players, regardless of sex? ?????s
Should there be the introduction of new sports OR other activities in which women may have the physiological advantage? Jane English
Sex equality and Sex Blindness (Assimilation) Does sex equality require Equality and Equivalent Opportunities (Pluralism) Assimilation versus Pluralism
The operative principles: equal concern and respect for all participants...may justify differences in treatments including expenditures. Equal respect and concern are compatible with recognition of difference. To Remember?
Difference does not necessarily require dominance and subordination. Sex equality does not require forgetting sex. Remember...
Recognizes Significance and Value of differences: but places non above the other. Pluralism
Failing at Fairness: Myra and David Sadker Negative comments and works about Feminism.. Christina Hoff Sommers, “The War Against Boys” “Who Stole Feminism” Feminism…