If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you know that I conducted a survey to give me some information about Women’s Athletics at SCU (here’s my first post about my survey). And the results are in!

I got 31 responses from 22 females and 9 males, and am quite satisfied with my results. Although all the responses were interesting, the questions that produced the most telling data were the two below.

Source: Natalie Kennedy

My results are shown below.

Source: Natalie Kennedy

The survey demonstrates that SCU students believe educational opportunities on campus are more gender-equal than athletic opportunities. On average, people tend to agree that women and men have equal opportunity in the classroom, but tend to be more lukewarm about equal opportunity in athletics.

This really got me thinking: Why do people think this when laws like Title IX, which have been passed to promote gender equality, are applied to both educational and athletic spheres? Is this mindset common at other schools in the area, or even nation wide? Is there a broader conversation going on about this topic?

For the next part of my research, I am going to look at contemporary applications of this and see if I can find some answers to the above questions.

Until next time,

BYEEEE (Source: Giphy)