well actually wrote:
Some women should be discriminated against. Can't have a coach out for a couple months because she had a baby middle of the year. Many schools don't have the luxury of having 6 full time coaches to cover for her.
Women are also far more likely to quit. Just look at the Yale coach who had a baby and then quit. All the power to her, it is great she will be able to spend more time for her family. But if you are a coach who is hiring, you want to hire someone who is most likely to stay in that position for many years.
So says the 22 year old dude.
I get what you are saying but as a new dad I think we should be doing as much as we possibly can for maternity leave, etc. Yes, it would be very hard for a track program - particularly a small one - for a coach to be out for 3 months in the middle of the season but the point of college is supposed education. What better educational moment than to teach young people who will presumably have their own families in 10-15 years that it's very hard to raise a child and we all need help doing it? So the jumps coach is out? Well can't the seniors try to coach the freshman? Or maybe film themselves and send it to the coach on maternity leave?
If the women's distance coach is out, then men's distance coach can send them the workouts and they can time themselves. Everyone chips in. The problem with society today is everyone is on their own. Everything is outsourced to an app and their is little community.