Key Findings: Sports

Despite Title IX and the influx of young women into sports, only 21 percent of collegiate athletic directors are female; only six of the 13 Women’s Basketball Association teams have head female coaches; and none of the National Basketball Association teams has a female head coach, general manager or president.
While women of color were 47 percent of NCAA basketball players in 2007-08, they made up only 11 percent of the head coaches of these teams; in the 2008 WNBA season, there was one female African-American head coach.
Women make up 48 percent of the athletes in Olympic competition but only 15 percent of the members of the International Olympic Committee and none of the officers.
In tennis, the one sport where women come closest to men in overall earning power, the top paid tennis player (winnings plus endorsements), Roger Federer ($35 million) surpasses the number two, Maria Sharapova ($26 million) by $9 million, and the Williams sisters ($15 million each) by $20 million.

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