Maddening March Gender Inequity: Tip of the Unfairness Iceberg for U.S. Girls and Women
Everyone saw how blatantly unfair it was for the women’s basketball teams in the NCAA tournament to have one tiny stack of weights and a couple of yoga mats whereas men’s basketball teams had an entire weight room complex. The uproar was quick and effective as the NCAA apologized, dashed to equalize the weight rooms, and enlightened companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods trucked loads of equipment to Texas for the female players to use.
By Kim Turner
Everyone saw how blatantly unfair it was for the women’s basketball teams in the NCAA tournament to have one tiny stack of weights and a couple of yoga mats whereas men’s basketball teams had an entire weight room complex. The uproar was quick and effective as the NCAA apologized, dashed to equalize the weight rooms, and enlightened companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods trucked loads of equipment to Texas for the female players to use. Yet, the obvious and inexcusable inequity faced by the college women’s basketball teams tipping off in Texas are just the tip of a national unfairness iceberg of blatant gender inequity faced by girls and young women across the country—a crisis we can easily fix.