The role of gender in sports

Dec. 9, 2009, 6 a.m. ·

Friday the Nebraska volleyball team continues its quest for another national title playing in an NCAA Regional in Omaha. A team of scholarship athletes will play in a packed arena on live television one sign of the progress women's sports has made in the last few decades. A group of top sports scholars talked about gender equity and the future of women in sports recently with Mike Tobias of NET News, as part of our "Sports in Society: More Than Games" project.