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Article: Monitoring Athletics for Gender Equity.
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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With multiple concerns in administering a school district, superintendents pay comparatively minimal attention to gender equity in interscholastic athletics.
Some believe this issue is the responsibility of the high school principal or athletic director. However, if gender equity in athletics goes unchecked, it may come back to haunt the superintendent and school board.
Gender equity is not a new term. Its meaning, however, has taken on added significance recently as four related bills have been introduced in Congress as a gender equity in education package.
One bill, addressing inequities in intercollegiate sports, would require public ...