Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women were given the opportunity to develop as athletes, but, as the percentage of men in the leadership ranks grew to overwhelmingly high numbers, these women were forced to look outside the system for role models...
...Women need the role models," Harvard women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise says. "The time from [age 18 to 22] is a crucial growth period. If women have always been coached by men, then they will think that men always hold those positions...
...there are so few women coaching that you just don't see the role models, and so women are not encouraged to go into coaching," Sweetser says. "It becomes a cycle...
...Jerboa, he's always quick to the ball and gets in and out of the corners real fast," Polsky says. "In one match I saw him dive for the ball 13 times, only to exit the court with bloody knees. He's always functioned marvelously as a role model...
...when making casting decisions for plays by such authors as Shakespeare, directors must balance historical accuracy and theatrical diversity, the HRDC president said. "For example, when a Black student is cast in a nineteenth-century Chekhov role, that is an anomaly. You can choose to ignore the anomalies or make a statement with them...