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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1752
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:16 am: | 
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For Black Women Coaches: You Haven’t Come a Long Way Baby
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7114.shtml
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8882
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:43 am: |
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What I've found interesting is how there are so many White MEN who coach female basketball teams. If it's difficult for White women to score head coaching lady basketball gigs, it stands to reason why there would be so few slots for sistas.
And I've YET to have anyone explain why women - Black and White - can't effectively coach MEN basketball teams. |
Stephgirl
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Username: Stephgirl
Post Number: 79
Registered: 09-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:54 am: |
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ABM,
You are so sexist! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8894
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:16 pm: |
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Stephgirl,
I am sexist is many ways, I suppose. But what's SEXIST about my prior post?
I've acknowledge that men unfairly occupy the head coach slots of both male and female teams. For example, I'll bet Pat Summit of the Lady Volunteers of University of Tennessee could win as many games coaching a Tennessee’s men teams as their current head coach.
If ANYTHING, I'm very womanist/feminist on THIS particular issue.
I believe whatever sport a woman plays, she should be allowed the chance to prove she can effectively coach a team of such REGARDLESS of the sex-gender of the team.
Bottomline: There are too few coaching opportunities for ALL women.
So perhaps rather than viewing this as a Black woman issue, it might be better to view it as broader woman issue which once effective handled will lead to Black women greatly benefiting from such. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1766
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 08:36 pm: |
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ABM, I thought your comments above were quite progressive. Perhaps Stephgirl misread? Anyway, I agree with you about the lack of opportunities. Perhaps at one time the excuse was valid that there were "not enough" qualified women (generally as well as Black specifically). But certainly that is not the case these days. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8903
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 07:39 am: |
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Yvettep,
Everytime I watch a woman's basketball game, I'm often startled by men coaching either or BOTH teams. Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se. But I can't help wondering why only men coach ALL men teams AND horn in on coaching women. With all the marvelous female players who've come along over the years, there MUST be MANY women who'd be excellent coaches.
But, like most anything else, because (mostly White) men own/run the collegiate and pro female leagues/teams, (mostly White) men get gigs that many women could quite easily qualify for.
Maybe something similar to the NFL Rooney Rule, which requires NFL teams to at least interview a certain number of Blacks for head coaching gigs, would help boost the likelihood of Black women scoring coaching gigs.
Maybe... |
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