{"id":171,"date":"2012-09-30T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-09-30T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:37:08","slug":"youve-come-a-long-way-baby-or-have-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2012\/09\/30\/youve-come-a-long-way-baby-or-have-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Come a Long Way Baby…or have you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1968 slogan<\/a> for a popular cigarette might very well be relevant now but if you were lucky enough to be on hand for our Women in Sports seminar at Boston University you might just wonder…Digit Murphy, the long time head women’s ice hockey coach at Brown University was quick to point out that despite celebrating the forty year anniversary of Title\u00a0IX<\/a>,\u00a0things are not necessarily better, if only in numbers…”There are fewer\u00a0women coaches now than there were ten years ago, Murphy stated, and that’s a problem”\u00a0…In fact , according to a New York Times article<\/a>, the numbers are staggering…Title IX has brought about sweeping changes for women in sports…One need look no further than right here on the Boston University campus to see its effect…After ninety one years,\u00a0 Terrier football <\/a>was dropped in 1997, many of the funds diverted to pay for women’s sports on campus…Many of those funds went for women’s scholarships and the women’s athletic program on this end of Commonwealth Avenue is thriving…<\/p>\n

Alice Cook<\/a> was a pioneer in Boston sports television , joining WBZ-TV in 1984, as first a producer and then a reporter…While she loved the stories and wouldn’t have traded it for anything,\u00a0acceptance was an issue…”I had athletes question everything about me, why i was there.I felt like I had to work harder than everyone else and couldn’t make a mistake”….Well, she outlived all of the detractors and went on to mentor many upcoming women sports journalists…Yet interestingly, like the female hockey coaches, the numbers of women on air at the networks affiliates here in Boston has evaporated…So where’s the progress?<\/p>\n

Amanda Braun has been in the position of hiring women coaches and administrators at three major universities including her current post at Northeastern…She remembers being asked\u00a0to join a conversation when the Huskies needed a new coach for their men’s team…”Dawn Staley’s <\/a>name was brought into the conversation and i was surprised.\u00a0 Iwondered how that would be received”…The Huskies went on to hire Bill Coen and there has yet to be a\u00a0woman coaching Division one men, although there are a couple of assistants<\/a> sprinkled in…<\/p>\n

Progress, sure…Are we there yet?, no way….Murphy gave perhaps the best piece of advice for men working alongside women in the sports world, journalism, \u00a0athletics or anywhere, for that matter…”Treat them as your peers. Treat them with respect”…<\/p>\n

Good avice for future journalists, men and women…After all, some day you might just wind up the General Manager and Coach of a professional women’s hocky team , the President and Founder of your own website or the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director of a major university…You Have come a long way…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1968 slogan for a popular cigarette might very well be relevant now but if you were lucky enough to be on hand for our Women in Sports seminar at Boston University you might just wonder…Digit Murphy, the long time head women’s ice hockey coach at Brown University was quick to point out that despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}