Kane featured in book about Title IX
“In the 1970s, the Minneapolis park board spent more money on boys’ hockey sticks than on the entire girls’ program combined...The prevailing attitude was girls aren’t interested in sports. And even if they were, they wouldn’t be any good. Why make the investment? Girls aren’t supposed to play sports."
Mary Jo Kane, PhD
Mary Jo Kane, PhD, professor emerita in the School of Kinesiology and director emerita of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, was featured in the book, Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX, authored by Sheri Brenden.
The book was highlighted in a recent article by Minnesota Women's Press. It tells the story of two high school athletes and how they fought for equality within girls' sports. In the book, Kane says, "Historically, what it meant to be an athlete was the same thing as what it meant to be male. In contrast, what it meant to be female traditionally was the antithesis of being an athlete. We were told for generations that the reason that girls and women didn’t play sports is because it was preordained, biologically, physiologically."