Virginia’s James Madison University has announced that it
will eliminate 10 of its 28 intercollegiate athletics teams at the end of the academic year to comply with the law banning sex discrimination at colleges that receive federal funds…
Interestingly, and poetically just, three of the teams that will be cut are women’s teams: archery, gymnastics, and fencing.
This fall, 61 percent of James Madison’s student population is female and 39 percent is male, but among its athletes, only 51 percent are women and 49 percent are men.
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Once the cuts are made, the gender balance on the remaining teams will exactly match that of the overall student population, the university said.
There, doesn’t that make you feel better?
Why not have gender equity funding for ALL of our young adults in postsecondary education. If its good for sports, why not have a balance of gender spending in higher education overall. Unfortunately, it is politically incorrect to suggest that K-12 and higher ed are female dominated, resulting in gender inequity in higher ed enrollment, resulting in cutting back men’s sports.