Raising funds, scholarships, and budgets in college sport should be carried out with consideration of talents, skills, and students’ aptness, but not with consideration of gender. Despite the existing legislature, there are a great number of stereotypes and prejudices that are historically and socially predetermined. The development of women’s sports dates back s to 1972, the time when Title IX has passed to enforce equality and fairness in funding sports.
Although this provision sounds noble and persuasive, many inconsistencies and unpredicted consequences arise on the basis of these regulations. Therefore, College should introduce complete equity in accessing sporting activities irrespective of gender because it can create wider opportunities for women to fulfill themselves, as well as justify the contemporary trends in gender equality movement.
College athlete programs fail to receive sufficient federal and financial support due to the ambiguity of the original law. Therefore, the government should take greater control of funding to ensure equal access of males and females to sporting activities. According to Title IX of Public Law,
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance” (No. 92-318).
Although this rule is officially recognized, there is no actual measures taken to introduce equal funding and budgeting for both male and female students studying at college.
Each person regardless of sex has the right to freedom and equality in self-expression and self-determination. Therefore, all people should be able to access any type of sport activities. Promoting equal funding will liberate women from false stereotypes and prejudices about their skills and abilities, as well as provide an opportunity for them to demonstrate strength and persistence in making decisions.
Therefore, such types of sports as basketball, football, box, or arm wrestling could even attract more spectators and supporters, which contribute to the prosperity of business in sport. Moreover, it can also attract more investors.
According to Gee, women can have similar changes to make contributions to sport in general because “American females brought home more hardware than did their male counterparts” (n. p.). These medals were won in boxing, which proves that college budget should be equally allocated among males and females.
Providing scholarship support both to male and female students can create underpinnings for exterminating gender discrimination, as well as providing new incentives for intellectual fulfillment. Ensuring sufficient financial support of female sports does not necessarily imply budget reductions in males’ sports.
As Carlson states, emergence and rapid development of women’s sports contributes positively to social change (n. p.). In particular, “female physical educators began to concede that sports participation improved, rather than harmed, the health of college women” (Carlson n. p.). Therefore, such an argument seems to the most persuasive reason for enhancing funding initiatives and introducing new standards to college sports.
In conclusion, college budgeting and funding activities should focus on equal allocation of financial resources to students, regardless of their gender. In fact, women’s constant fight for equality should not be confined to cultural and political fields because introducing improvements to sports sphere also promotes social change.
Hence, historic perspective and legal regulations approve women’s aspiration to participate in sporting activities because it significantly improves their physical health, as well as establishes new dimensions for self-expression and determination. More importantly, it can provide significant improvements to educational sphere as well because students should not restricted in the possibility to their reveal abilities, talents, and skills.
Works Cited
Carlson, Christie. “Gender Equality in Sports Scholarships”, LiveStrong. 2011. Web.
Gee, Austen. “2012: Year of the Women in Athletics, But Is There Equality in Sports”. Policymic. 2013. Web.
Public Law, Title IX, No. 92-318, Stat. 235. Print.