Sports Legislation and the Collegiate Response: Predicting Women’s Sport Offerings, Gender Preferences, and Responses

• In Event: Issues in Public Policy and Administration

Brief Overview

This paper uses summarized funding, participation, and rostering data produced by the Department of Education that represents athletic departments nationwide to evaluate how gender norms and other variables influence the selection of women’s sports.

Author

• Leighton McAlpin, United States Military Academy, West Point