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Chapter 8: Gender and Sports: Does Equity Require Ideological Changes?

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bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge (This is a key site; excellent links to information on Title IX, lawsuits and current legal decisions, university compliance, news stories; links to reports on gender equity, guides for schools, EEOC guidelines for coaches’ pay; contains an amazing range of links to key sources on gender equity in the U.S.)

www.KLS.coled.umn.edu/crgws (The Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sports directed by Mary Jo Kane; describes the center, its research programs and current events; key links to sites not found on other Web pages; download the text of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Reports, Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls, an excellent reference source)

www.de.psu.edu/wsi/contacts.htm (Numerous links to sites about women’s sports around the world; connects to sites in Australia, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States)

www.de.psu.edu/wsi/wsweb.htm (More links to sites about women’s sports around the world; see especially the link to Women in the Olympic Movement)

www.feminist.org/research/sports2.html (Special coverage of "Empowering Women in Sports." This site has much useful information about issues related to gender relations and women in sports.)

www.feminist.org/gateway/sp_exec2.html (Numerous links to sites dealing with girls and women in sports; links include some professional and many popular sites, such as Surfer Girl Magazine and others)

www.iwg-gti.org site of the International Working Group on Women and Sport; contains information on programs, policy issues, and problems faced by girls and women in nearly 100 countries around the globe.

www.ajc.com (The Atlanta Journal Constitution ran an 8-day series, The Gender Gap, that discussed the state of gender inequities in Georgia High Schools in 1999; search "the Stacks" for the story title or author, Mike Fish)

www.aahperd.org/nagws/publications-relatedsites.html (The national Association for Girls and Women in Sport is an active organization advancing gender equity in U.S. schools; this page on the site lists a wide range of links to other sties from the WNBA to Trial Lawyers for Public Justice)

www.sportinsociety.org/ (Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Click on Urban Youth Sports and SportsCAP. Both of these programs are designed to participation and job opportunities for girls and women in sports. Also click on the Racial and Gender Report Card to find data on the affirmative action records of major U.S. professional sport leagues and Division I intercollegiate sports in the U.S.)

www.sportsforwomen.com (this site emphasizes women’s sport news across all sports; it is an alternative to the male-dominated sports pages in city newspapers and an alternative to sites such as ESPN and other online sport sites that give priority to men’s sports and male athletes)

www.nfl.com/fans/forher/index.html (good example of the NFL’s efforts to recruit women fans)


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