Gender Wars....

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BoomerSooner

Why do we, myself included, still make this statement??? I was reading it and clicked to me that the type of thinking that we're discussing was just as wrong in 1914 as it is in 2014. It was accepted much more widely then, but so was slavery in 1814. That didn't make slavery right then either. The problem isn't that people haven't gotten with the times, it is that they haven't gotten the message at all.

That rant aside, there are really two ways to deal with this:
1. The court of public opinion - go to the news with it. or
2. The court - a decent law student could probably handle the case

People still today (women included) believe that women have a place and that is not something you have to go back to the 1800s to find. Heck there are people that feel that women's main job is to be a mom and when you expect more from them, there is a social problem with suggesting they get a job and work like anyone else. So why would we think there is not a disconnect with how and who works games when both genders are treated so differently by those that participate in one or the other.

And unless we know the correspondence of what is requested by people that are independent contractors, we really need to take a step back. I do not see anyone suing college conferences that clearly have not hired any women on the Men's side and hire men all the time Women's college basketball. Even then I believe a lawsuit would be hard if there was a court case in either situation and I doubt there is much of a paper trail to prove that women are not hired systematically. Part of what we do is tribal and people tend to make a business decision as to where they spend their time away from home.

Peace