The brilliant Cecily Kidd put together a few URLs discussing TitleIX and the funding disparity between male and female sports. "[M]ale athletes receive $133 million more in athletic scholarships than female athletes." In one of the few sports where men and women compete (against each other) on the same field and with the same (or similar) equipment: motor sports, where men are no more rewarded for being muscular or women penalized for any female physical attributes; women have not only competed, but won against men. Shirley Muldowney has won four Top Fuel championships, Angelle Savoie has won two Pro Stock Bike championships, Jutta Kleinschmidt won the Paris-Dakar rally, Shawna Robinson won the poll with a track record in 1994 Busch race at Atlanta, Sarah Fisher is the most popular driver in IRL and the cuteandlovableDanicaPatrick recently won at the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race at Long Beach. So why can't thesewomen get a steady sponsorship deal and a regular ride as a driver? Why do they always have to be 'something more'?
posted by tamim
on Jul 2, 2002 -
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