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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2227960, member: 199"] But as you say men have always had those other opportunities - and while the percentage of men in those 'other' opportunities still dwarfs women it is no longer 100%. How many women called games, occupied sports desks, were sideline reports, were trainers, sports therapists, ADs/assistant ADs, publicists for sports teams, sports lawyers, agents, etc. thirty years ago compared to today not to mention the non-sports expansion of possibilities in executive wings, owners of start ups, etc. In Geno's original statement he talked about his wife having two career opportunities coming out of college - elementary/HS teacher and nursing - a simplification to be sure but in 1970 or thereabouts not that much of one - very few female lawyers, lots of female paralegals, very few doctors lots of nurses, very few executive track jobs, lots of secretarial ones. For athletically inclined women - coaching. CD2 at the end of her college playing days might well have pursued coaching (she likely would have been good) but instead she got an executive track job with Nike paying I suspect a lot more money with a much easier life style than working as an assistant coach at a D2/D3/or low D1 school - Mel Thomas chose to start down the path of coaching for a few years at FLGC but got tempted into business after a few years for likely the same reason. It isn't that men and women don't now have similar options, its that women didn't have those similar options 30 years ago and being women, their academic resumes are probably a lot better than the male former athletes in the same possible pool of coaches. [/QUOTE]

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