Why are there so few female head coaches in travel ball?

[Sam]

They aren't very good. Most are very good ex-players who didn't pay attention to game strategy. These are the coaches who play the infield in with two outs in the 7th, up by 5 and nobody on base. Not their fault in total....they may have had stupid male coaches teaching them. They typically have little patience for mediocre players. Not good with umpires because they don't know the rules very well. They tend to want to correct batter swings on each pitch and relay bad information to their batters.

Avoid them if possible.

[Battle]

They aren't very good. Most are very good ex-players who didn't pay attention to game strategy. These are the coaches who play the infield in with two outs in the 7th, up by 5 and nobody on base. Not their fault in total....they may have had stupid male coaches teaching them. They typically have little patience for mediocre players. Not good with umpires because they don't know the rules very well. They tend to want to correct batter swings on each pitch and relay bad information to their batters.

Avoid them if possible.

That may be true but here comes the few examples of good female coaches and you respond with there are "exceptions to the rule"....

[PDad]

Sue I guess you did not read the attached article. There are fewer female coaches now then there were when title 9 was passed over 40 years ago, why?
The article cited a decrease in the percentage of college teams coached by women - not "fewer female coaches". The number of women's teams increased dramatically after Title IX and the ratio changed as more men were hired with the new positions. Do the math - #teams doubled and percentage dropped by less than half (i.e. 90% to 58%) indicates there were more women coaches, not fewer.

Also, there may be more female travel coaches ( numerically, but with the huge increase in the total number of teams I wonder if the actual percentage of female coaches teams has increased-just don’t know

Amazing that you saw the difference between quantity and percentages with travel teams, but not with the article.

As far as equal pay, I think it really depends on industry and location. I think if you take out silicone valley(all tech) and entertainment the comparison is much more even

Is "silicone valley" the area between 2 old breast implants? LMAO Try using some tech and google silicone vs silicon...

[jonriv]

Another pretty good article on the subject

http://www.ncaa.org/static/champion/whe ... the-women/


Also since 2001 75% of NCAA women’s team coaching vacancies were filled by men

[GIMNEPIWO]

They aren't very good. Most are very good ex-players who didn't pay attention to game strategy. These are the coaches who play the infield in with two outs in the 7th, up by 5 and nobody on base. Not their fault in total....they may have had stupid male coaches teaching them. They typically have little patience for mediocre players. Not good with umpires because they don't know the rules very well. They tend to want to correct batter swings on each pitch and relay bad information to their batters.

Avoid them if possible.

Do you think that the reason they did not pay attention to strategy could be because (in my opinion) many female coaches are x-pitchers ? I am of the opinion in both softball and baseball that the worst coaches are former pitchers ... In contrast I think the best strategy coaches are former catchers ...