NCAA Equality

By Gregory Cermignano
Associate Professor of Accounting and Business Law
Widener University School of Business Administration

The Men's NCAA tournament is coming down to the final weekend, and TV coverage abounds. We can even find coverage of the Men's NIT. The Women's NCAA tournament has finally come off of the pay-per-view channels (the only place to find all of the opening round games) and moved to the regular ESPN channels, while the Women's NIT is nowhere to be found. We have worked hard in America to attempt to create some equality for women. We have various pieces of legislation (like Title IX), which have helped. But are we doing enough? Should the airwaves be forced to treat the presentation of all of these events with equality? Should we have a choice of what to watch? This blogger thinks so.