Playing but Losing: Women’s Sports After Title IX
by
Cheryl Cooky and Nicole M. LaVoi
| February 14, 2012
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Winter 2012
Girls and women have more opportunities since Title IX, but the playing field is still far from level. Cheryl Cooky and Nicole M. Lavoi explore how major inequities remain, especially in terms of media attention, distribution of institutional resources and opportunities to coach and lead in the world of sport.
Authors
Cheryl Cooky is in the department of health and kinesiology and the women’s studies program at Purdue University and an affiliated scholar of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. She studies gender in sport participation and in sports media.
Nicole M. LaVoi is in the School of Kinesiology and is the Associate Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. She studies gender in sport, particularly the lack of female coaches, underserved populations of girls, and sports media.
