Title IX; Discrimination or Capitalism.

While watching Ms. Barcomb's lecture about women coaches in the NCAA, I thought of a few things. First, the use of percentages, I feel, was misleading and a little bit weak. Throughout the lecture, it was always percentages, and without raw numbers like the number of women coaches in the NCAA in 1972 vs the coaches in 2020. Percentages can be really misleading without taking into account all the factors including how the original and the new number was calculated. Continuing, 90% to 40% is a large decrease, undeniably, but there has to be some reason for this to occur. Ms. Barcomb talked about the athletic directors who hire these coaches, and, coming back to capitalism, in the eyes of the "employer" men are typically better at coaching than women. Whatever than thought process is, it is they who are paying these coaches and they want the best for they pay for. The question is, is what needs to change? Sure, women can coach as good as men, but is that the point? The point is that it is the employer's decision to make and to force someone to make a decision based on sex is almost... socialistic in a way. I don't know the right term, but forcing organizations to have 50/50 men and women coaches is not how the United States runs. The United States of America runs on the freedom of choice and it is a double standard between both political parties. What I mean by this, and the most recent example is the topic of abortion. Democrats are pro-choice, they believe in the right to choose, but when it comes to men and women coaches, there has to be some sort of government intervention to regulate the ration of women to men in the NCAA in particular. Now, I am not denying there is not any discrimination, but that there are biases, and morality does not factor in business transactions. The NCAA is another business transaction and whether or not it is moral, it does not matter when money is involved. Ms. Barcomb pointed out how beneficial it is for women to be coaches as it can inspire other females to aspire for greatness and more, but the NCAA is a $14 billion dollar industry and each team wants to maximize profit because it is a business and male coaches bring more intensity (in the eyes of the employer) which brings more school spirit for example which brings in more support and thus ends in more money being made. I hate to say it, but unless, either women bring more appeal to the commercial industry or the government signs a bill like the Title IX bill, things will the same unless something drastic occurs.