scholarly journals Attorney General v. MIAA at Forty Years: A Critical Examination of Gender Segregation in High School Athletics in Massachusetts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E. Buzuvis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
High School Athletics ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports ◽  
And Gender

Published: Erin E. Buzuvis, Attorney General v. MIAA at Forty Years: A Critical Examination of Gender Segregation in High School Athletics in Massachusetts, 25 TEX. J. C.L. & C.R. 1 (2019).Forty years ago, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled in Attorney General v. Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association that the state constitution's newly-added equal rights amendment prohibited the blanket exclusion of boys from girls' athletic teams. The state’s constitutional law departed from Title IX, as well as that of other states, in providing a legal foundation for a wider selection of gender-integrated high school sports. However, most sports remain segregated by sex. The Author opines that sport organizers in Massachusetts have missed an opportunity to provide students a more balanced menu of athletic opportunities that incorporate both sex-segregated and gender-free sports for the advantages each uniquely provides. This Article further describes how gender-free sport can address logistical challenges posed by segregating boys' and girls' opportunities within the same sport, mitigate the stereotypes of inferior girls' sports, and maximize inclusion of transgender athletes. While segregated sports serve an important role to protect and preserve opportunities for female athletes whose interests and abilities have historically and continuously been suppressed, the Author suggests it is time to start thinking not about replacing girls' sports altogether but adding more gender-free sports. Massachusetts should identify those sports in which separation does more harm than good, and test whether degendering sport provides net advantages.

The Prevalence of Disordered Eating among Adolescent Female Athletes in Four High School Sports

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S36-S37
Author(s):  
Jeanne F. Nichols ◽  
Mitchell J. Rauh ◽  
Mandra Lawson ◽  
Yael Pernick ◽  
Mary Hoskinson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Adolescent Female ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports

The Prevalence of Disordered Eating among Adolescent Female Athletes in Four High School Sports

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S36???S37
Author(s):  
Jeanne F. Nichols ◽  
Mitchell J. Rauh ◽  
Mandra Lawson ◽  
Yael Pernick ◽  
Mary Hoskinson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Adolescent Female ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports

Do High School Athletics Pay?: The Effects of Varsity Participation on Socioeconomic Attainment

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Howell ◽  
Andrew W. Miracle ◽  
C. Roger Rees
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
National Sample ◽  
High School Athletics ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Career Lines ◽  
The Life Course

It has been reported that participation in high school athletics has a positive effect on education, occupational status attainment, and earnings. (Otto and Alwin, 1977; Howell and Picou, 1983). The findings regarding the economical benefits of sport participation have emerged from two regional panel studies and need to be examined for generalizability beyond local labor markets. We test this hypothesis using the five-wave Youth in Transition panel based on a national sample of 1,628 males. The respondents were surveyed repeatedly during their high school years (1966-69). They were followed-up 1 year posthigh school (1970) and again 5 years (1974) after graduation. Our results do not support the hypothesis. However, we suggest that the lack of supportive findings may be explained by the stage in the life cycle at which the follow-up was completed. That is, any economical payoff owing to participation in high school athletics is not an immediate return but may begin to accrue 10 or more years after graduation when career lines have begun to unfold. Another possibility is that the effect of high school sports participation on earnings may only occur for those also subsequently attending college. The implications of specific explanations of sport participation outcomes for the life course interpretation are discussed.

scholarly journals Examining Gender Equity in Newspaper Coverage of West-Central Ohio High School Basketball Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Green ◽  
Ashley M. Holtzapple ◽  
Lauren McKinley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
High School Athletics ◽  
Community Media ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports ◽  
West Central

Across eight high school basketball seasons between 2000 and 2010, we investigated the coverage of over 300 high school basketball games and compared the quantity of coverage allotted to boys’ and girls’ teams within two west-central Ohio newspapers.   Unlike previous investigations on media coverage of high school sports, we restricted our sample to coverage of actual games and did not include feature articles about individual athletes, coaches, or booster clubs, and we determined article length by counting the number of words used in each article.   We found that boys’ games received two to three times the length of coverage of girls’ games.   Media coverage of girls’ games was also less likely to include a photograph and tended to begin lower on the sports page.   We discuss the potential implications of ignoring girls’ high school athletics within community media. 

Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School

2021 ◽  
pp. 216747952110129
Author(s):  
Alaina C. Zanin ◽  
Laura V. Martinez ◽  
Lucy C. Niess
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Athletic Identity ◽  
Communication Theory Of Identity ◽  
And Gender

This study employed a turning point analysis to document events that influence the development of athletic identities in female athletes transitioning into high school. All participants ( N = 28), between the ages of 14–15 years old, belonged to a competitive club soccer team located in the southwestern United States. Through an analysis of pre- and post-season interviews and bi-weekly video journal entries, data revealed several fragmenting turning point events related to participants’ athletic identity development. These fragmenting turning points paired with the communication theory of identity (CTI) framework highlighted three identity gaps: (a) athletic-relational, (b) athletic-communal, and (c) athletic-enacted. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed regarding turning points in relation to athletic identity development and gender disparities in sport participation.

The Effects of Playing Multiple High School Sports on National Basketball Association Players’ Propensity for Injury and Athletic Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Rugg ◽  
Adarsh Kadoor ◽  
Brian T. Feeley ◽  
Nirav K. Pandya
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
Professional Basketball ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Career Length ◽  
Major Injury ◽  
Elite Status

Background: Athletes who specialize in their sport at an early age may be at risk for burnout, overuse injury, and reduced attainment of elite status. Timing of sport specialization has not been studied in elite basketball athletes. Hypothesis: National Basketball Association (NBA) players who played multiple sports during adolescence would be less likely to experience injury and would have higher participation rates in terms of games played and career length compared with single-sport athletes. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Methods: First-round draft picks from 2008 to 2015 in the NBA were included in the study. From publically available records from the internet, the following data were collected for each athlete: participation in high school sports, major injuries sustained in the NBA, percentage of games played in the NBA, and whether the athlete was still active in the NBA. Athletes who participated in sports in addition to basketball during high school were defined as multisport athletes and were compared with athletes who participated only in basketball in high school. Results: Two hundred thirty-seven athletes were included in the study, of which 36 (15%) were multisport athletes and 201 (85%) were single-sport athletes in high school. The multisport cohort played in a statistically significantly greater percentage of total games (78.4% vs 72.8%; P < .001). Participants in the multisport cohort were less likely to sustain a major injury during their career (25% vs 43%, P = .03). Finally, a greater percentage of the multisport athletes were active in the league at time of data acquisition, indicating increased longevity in the NBA (94% vs 81.1%; P = .03). Conclusion: While a minority of professional basketball athletes participated in multiple sports in high school, those who were multisport athletes participated in more games, experienced fewer major injuries, and had longer careers than those who participated in a single sport. Further research is needed to determine the reasons behind these differences.

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