At Pine Bluff, for example, only two coaches work with women full time. The men's basketball coach works with men's and women's tennis, and one of the assistant football coaches is in charge of both golf teams. In addition to coaching her three teams, Ms. Hayes acts as the department's senior woman administrator in N.C.A.A. and conference matters, and supervises the department's local youth-sports program. Recruiting Budgets Women also continue to lag behind men when it comes to recruiting budgets. The largest disparities among the four Arkansas institutions show up in their operating budgets for women's sports.
Football is the major reason women get small pieces of the pie.
Both institutions trailed the national averages for their kinds of programs. Beyond proportions, though, the raw dollars tell a different story. It makes it tough. The gap means that female athletes at Fayetteville have an entire training room to themselves, to take care of their injuries and health needs, while female soccer players at Little Rock complain that they don't even have a trainer at practice. Ultimately, the gap means that the gender-equity revolution has come much more slowly to the institutions outside the top six Division I conferences, particularly those with football squads.