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Why didn't we hire a woman to be the women's volleyball coach?  I assume that most women's volleyball coaches are men, and that could be the answer right there.  If so, why is it that most women's volleyball coaches are men?

There has been a fair amount of discussion out there that one of the curious, unintended consequences of Title IX is that as the prestige and pay for coaching women's teams has risen, there are far more male coaches of NCAA women's teams. Presumably this reflects a loss of opportunities for women; though since the total number of women's teams has greatly increased, it may not be an absolute loss of positions.

It's easy to google lots of articles on the topic. Most of them tend to focus on basketball, as that is the highest profile women's sport.

Here is a report out of the University of Minnesota on the matter, unfortunately several years old now (2012-13 season).
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/lib...Dec-18.pdf
It looks like at that time, 40% of NCAA women's volleyball teams had a female head coach, 60% of basketball teams. (see chart bottom of p.6)

Stanford, by the way, comes in at a C in their grading system, with 40.9% female head coaches. (See Table 3 on p. 15)

[CTcard]

Why didn't we hire a woman to be the women's volleyball coach?  I assume that most women's volleyball coaches are men, and that could be the answer right there.  If so, why is it that most women's volleyball coaches are men?

There has been a fair amount of discussion out there that one of the curious, unintended consequences of Title IX is that as the prestige and pay for coaching women's teams has risen, there are far more male coaches of NCAA women's teams. Presumably this reflects a loss of opportunities for women; though since the total number of women's teams has greatly increased, it may not be an absolute loss of positions.

It's easy to google lots of articles on the topic. Most of them tend to focus on basketball, as that is the highest profile women's sport.

Here is a report out of the University of Minnesota on the matter, unfortunately several years old now (2012-13 season).
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/lib...Dec-18.pdf
It looks like at that time, 40% of NCAA women's volleyball teams had a female head coach, 60% of basketball teams. (see chart bottom of p.6)

Stanford, by the way, comes in at a C in their grading system, with 40.9% female head coaches. (See Table 3 on p. 15)