(ePUB) More Than a Game by Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton

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More Than a Game
One Woman’s Fight for Gender Equity in Sport
by Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton

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• Author: Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Format: paperback, 309 pages
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781555535254 (1555535259)
• Release date: April 4, 2002

About The Book

Contrary to rumors on campus and in the local press, Cynthia Pemberton did not set out in 1992 to destroy the long-honored football team of Linfield College, a small liberal arts school in Oregon. Instead, the Assistant Athletic Director for Women’s Sports wanted to make athletic opportunities equally available to both women and men — simply to make the college comply with the law. Her six-year crusade for full implementation of Title IX made headlines across the nation. Here is Pemberton’s autobiographical account of what would become the ordeal of her life. When Pemberton first arrived at Linfield in 1989, she accepted the logic that the more lucrative men’s sports earned male players preferential treatment. Men’s teams were outfitted at the college’s expense, but Pemberton began noticing that the women often had to buy their own equipment and shape their practice and facility use schedules around the men’s sports. Also, scant resources were available for the recruiting and coaching of women athletes. It became clear that their success would always be limited unless policies changed. The author recounts her steps in prodding Linfield to gender awareness and then to justice. For s

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