The University of Cincinnati plans to build a $650,000 training site for its women’s rowing team, some of whose members have accused the university in a lawsuit of giving them less support than comparable men’s teams, the Associated Press reported this morning. But the university said the construction plan was not a response to the lawsuit, which says the university is violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal gender-equity law, and which seeks the construction of a boathouse for training, among other things.
Complaints by women’s groups about alleged unequal treatment at Cincinnati date to at least 2002, when it was one of 30 athletics programs singled out for criticism by the National Women’s Law Center (The Chronicle, June 19, 2002).
