April 22, 2019 by Marcia G. Yerman · Activism

Muffet McGraw Wants to Know: Where Have All the Female Coaches Gone?

A Notre Dame icon questions the decline in female coaches in women’s sports.

The rhetorical question of “Why aren’t there more women in power?” was posed definitively and unabashedly, recently, and it wasn’t in reference to the run for the White House.

It happened during the first week in April, in the middle of college basketball March Madness. The inquiry came from renowned head coach of the Notre Dame women’s team, Muffet McGraw. She was responding to questions about an article on women in basketball, where she had dropped the remark that she would not hire another man for her coaching staff.

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