Delaware State Settles Gender-Equity Lawsuit

[superman7515]

This is going to effect every sport offered by DelState...

www.delawareonline.com/article/20101022/NEWS/101022035/DSU-settles-gender-equity-lawsuit-will-equalize-spending-on-varsity-sports

Currently the school's population is about 61 percent female but only 42 percent of the school's varsity athletes are women, a 19 percent gap that DSU will now have to close by 2013 to within 2.5 percentage points.

Fletman said DSU has failed to meet the Title IX standard for at least the past five years and may never have met the standard set by the gender equity law that was passed in 1972.

DSU also will also have to increase funding for the recruitment of female athletes over the next five years until it equals that spent on recruiting male athletes.

Currently, Fletman said DSU only spends 26 percent of its recruitment money on females and in some years the rate has been as low as 9 percent.

[DSUrocks07]

It sure is, it's really forces us into a bind :/