Mary Jo Kane, professor of sport sociology in Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, was quoted in a USA Today column by Christine Brennan, titled “Some top male athletes had a woman as their sports idol“.
Kane notes that “as a result of Title IX, we have now created a critical mass of women who have played sports. We now have a generation or two of great women athletes, and a generation of male athletes growing up who see women’s sports not as an insult or a step down, but instead see female athletes as role models.”