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Project #1
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Women's
Studies Solution Project
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Scholarship
Opportunity for Female athletes at Roosevelt High School,
Wyandotte MI
Obstacle
In
Wyandotte, athletic booster groups provide financial,
equipment and other support to the school districts athletic
program, in some cases helping both males and females.
One major booster group (RHS Alumni Football Club) awards
athletic scholarships, focusing that support to the football
program. This hardworking booster group has cumulatively
given over $100,000 of scholarships to graduate (mostly
male) athletes. Approximately 15 scholarships of $12,000
total was given in 1999. The school district encourages
this, but does not require the athletic boosters to provide
comparable scholarship support to female athletes.
Why is this important to Women?
Everyone
deserves a fair opportunity to achieve to his or her maximum
potential. The female athletes at this high school are
not receiving the scholarship because they are not on
the football team, a male sport in which females do not
participate. As a result, the female athletes are not
given an equal opportunity to fund their college education.
It is not right to be denied an opportunity because of
your sex.
Data Collected/Sources
1. The Women's Sports Foundation
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org
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The
Women's Sports Foundation is a national nonprofit,
educational, member-based organization dedicated
to promoting the lifelong participation of all girls
and women in sports and fitness. Established in
1974 by Billie Jean King, its founder; Donna de
Varona, a founding member abd its first president;
and many other champion female athletes, the foundation
seeks to create an educated public that encourages
female' participation and supports gender equality
in sport.
This web
site provided information about how we could take
action to provide the equal opportunity for the
female athletes. We benefited from this site with
the idea to contact our congress and also get help
from the media to spread the word. We were able
to get feedback on our ideas in the discussions
boards and email center.
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Solution
The
Wyandotte Female Athlete scholarship foundation was founded
in the year 2000 to develop a scholarship fund to be awarded
to graduating female athletes from the high school. It's
goal is to award two $500 scholarships each year and help
continue to support the athletes with a mentor program
to help them with their career goals. The foundation has
raised enough to fund the scholarships for the next four
years, and has hopes to create more scholarships to help
give more students the opportunity they deserve. |
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