Q: How Do You Measure Gender Equity in the Assignment and Compensation of Coaches?
By Christine H.B. Grant and Janet Judge (originally published as part of an NCAA series on Gender Equity Q&As in the NCAA News)
Introduction
Staff Building / Diversity
Q: What are the elements of a "professional conduct" policy that address inappropriate staff relationships?
Professional conduct policies are in addition to the organization's or institution's ethics or conflict of interest policy. A professional conduct policy usually addresses sexual harassment, offensive behavior, and inappropriate relationships.
Q: Should the athletics director/CEO in the athletics department or non-profit organization be professional managers?
The most defining characteristic of an educational institution or a non-profit organization is its nature as 'professional bureaucracy'. In a professional bureaucracy, the professional workers are so well respected and highly trained as teachers, researchers, or program experts that they are also entrusted with the administration of the non-profit business. Thus, managers are usually educators and program experts first and foremost, and managers second or possessing little if any managerial training.
Q: What are the elements of a successful minority recruitment program?
Women, members of racial/ethnic minorities and individuals with disabilities are simply not present as coaches, managers and administrators to the same extent as they are represented in the general population. The African-American female is in double jeopardy. She is discriminated against by her gender. She is discriminated against by her race. African-American females represent less than 5% of all high school athletes, less than 10% of all college athletes, less than 2 % of all coaches and less than 1% of all college athletics administrators.