ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) On the 45th anniversary of Title IX, women and people of color remain on the outside when it comes to hiring head coaches in women’s college sports, according to a report Friday by sports institutes.
The report found that the coaches hired were predominantly white and male in most of the eight conferences surveyed: the Power 5 conferences – Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Southeastern and Pac-12 – along with the American Athletic, Big East and Ivy League.
The study was done by the Institute for Diversity & Ethics in Sport in collaboration with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and LGBT SportSafe.