ColoradoMooseHerd said:
This is what is wrong with women's sports today.
We need equal pay
We need equal scholarships
We need equal media attention
We need equal number of boards on TexAgs
The arguments completely ignore the demand or interest in the sports and demand the "equal" amount of attention or boards or money. If softball had a separate board, it would be a ghost town as many of the people visiting softball threads only do so because they were here looking for baseball threads and just so happen to click on it. The interest in the women's sports and the demand for tickets or willingness to spend money on them is just not their to justify the "equal" pay, scholarships, etc, etc.
Without Title IX and its application to intercollegiate sports the upswell in especially soccer and softball would have been quite a bit slower. Which suggests Title IX by ensuring equivalent opportunity on essentially a scholarship per scholarship basis indeed has created an upswell in demand among girls and women to participate in sports.
I would argue the prior discrimination by men and women against girls and women in athletics couldgiven the uptakehave been an unfortunate thing. I also doubt that it takes less long for women's professional sports to gain parity in pay than it generally took men to achieve astronomical salaries in the professional leagues.
But there IS an example where women's push for equality SIGNIFICANTLY improved men's performance and pay. And it has been televised in a format that has been mostly equal since the late 60s. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which sport.
