Pamela Seidenman, founder of Accelerate Equity commented, “This June is the 53rd anniversary of Title IX. The fact that only 14% of colleges and universities comply with the law is crazy. We built the Gender Equity Dashboard to bring visibility to the issue. The Dashboard makes it easy to see if women are getting an equitable number of roster spots and athletic scholarships at any college, as the law requires. You can also see how spending on men’s and women’s sports and on recruiting compares at any school.”

Women athletes received $2.29 billion in athletic aid, while men received $2.79 billion. Seidenman adds, “If women received proportional opportunities to play, they would be receiving hundreds of millions more in athletic scholarships. In addition, the recent House v. NCAA settlement awards over 90% of all back damages to male athletes. This will further widen the gap between how schools treat their male and female athletes.”

Other key findings:

• For every dollar spent on intercollegiate men’s teams, 53 cents is spent on women’s teams. 
• For every dollar spent on recruiting for men’s teams, 38 cents is spent on recruiting for women’s teams.
• Only 115 NCAA schools, out of a total 1054, appear to provide proportional opportunities and scholarship dollars to women athletes, based on self-reported data. 
• NCAA schools provided over 232,000 roster spots to women. Had they provided a proportional number, they would have offered over 384,000.

Accelerate Equity advances opportunity and equal treatment for women’s college sports and girls’ high school sports. The Gender Equity Dashboard brings awareness to how every school is doing at providing equitable treatment to women athletes. Our analysis uses data that colleges self-report to the Department of Education.

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