Courting an Ex
Anyone who tuned in on Saturday, March 27, to watch the University of Iowa take on top-seeded Connecticut in the women’s NCAA college basketball tournament should have been made aware of how poorly the NCAA has treated the women’s game.
Since the tournament in San Antonio, Texas, began, articles have repeatedly evidenced the utter inequality between it and the men’s tournament, in Indianapolis. Optics that include no on-site TV commentators until the round of 16, the dearth of marketing presence around the Texas city, inadequate weight rooms, the outright ban on the term “March Madness” for the women’s tournament, and the investment disparity, prove more than ever that the NCAA’s treatment of women’s sports is how W. C. Fields deals with annoyances: “Go on, kid, ya bother me.”
“This is an issue of fairness,” Amy Privette Perko, chief executive of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, asserted in The New York Times. “The NCAA is intended to be a unifying organization for its schools to provide educational opportunities through sports. One of its foundational principles is to conduct its activities in a ‘manner free of gender bias,’ and in this case, it seems clear that the NCAA failed to meet its own standard.”
But there’s a simple make-good for this separate-but-unequal treatment: Let college women’s sports once again be administered by an organization that has a herstory of keeping the toilet seat down: the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW).
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