>>>BTW, if cheerleading is a sport, when two teams compete, who will lead the cheers of their fans?
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>>Your perspective is interesting. The problem is that it has nothing to do with sexism and matriarchal monopoly. It is simply a question of who wants to be involved and whether or not they are qualified to make the team. There are no restrictions. You cannot always blame a lack of women doing something or a lack of men doing something on society, sexism, or anything else. It may simply be that no one is interested in doing it and it hurts your sense of equilibrium.
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>Just my weekend theatre of absurds.
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>The elephant in the room, around which I clobbered this dance, is the fact that in most cases, sports are the male sports; no school will advertise itself with having an excellent girls' team in sport A, if they have at least a city level good male team in sport B. At least it won't credit them in that order. Also, for girls (I got them, you got one), if they're anywhere above average looking, there's always the choice to be a cheerleader. In other worlds, girls, we are offering you to be a sideshow while the important guys are playing; the more leg you can show, the better. You know we appreciate you because of your intellectual accomplishments, but if you can jump in sync, that'd be great.
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>It's not about equilibrium, aka balance (which you'll never have on your check account, because it there's a balance on it, then you don't have a balance and vice versa), but about the tacit division of roles by gender.
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>In the long run, this may work in the ladies' advantage, though: they aren't, for the most part, getting into colleges as jocks, but by being smart. Eventually, the ladies with diplomas will outsmart the jocks.
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>BTW, it wasn't much better at home - women had equal rights on paper, and were often in managerial roles (two consecutive principals in my elementary schools, and a dozen others I knew), but there was the disparity almost everywhere ("we can't force people to vote this way, we can only educate them and work on achieving that in the future") and pretty much nobody watched girls' sports, unless they were really top notch. At least we didn't have any cheerleaders.

At least it is being studied:

http://cehd.umn.edu/pubs/researchworks/tucker.html

I don't have much hope for any huge changes in the near future though...