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The Basketball Coach Who Won’t Hire Men

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame basketball coach Muffet McGraw wasn’t planning on making a speech about feminism and gender equality. But at a press conference before the Final Four tournament, that’s just what she did, launching into a screed about the dearth of women in government, politics, corporate C-suites, and sports. “We don’t have enough female role models,” McGraw said. “Men run the world!” The viral moment was a lifetime in the making.

Guest: Muffet McGraw, head coach of the Notre Dame women’s basketball team. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.


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0:00.0

In the world of women's basketball, Muffet McGraw is a legend.

0:08.7

She's one of just a few female head coaches at the very top of her game.

0:13.0

She coaches at Notre Dame, makes a million bucks a year.

0:16.1

In South Bend, Indiana, she is so well known that when you land at the airport, it's her voice that you hear

0:22.1

over the loudspeaker.

0:23.2

It's really kind of weird when you're sitting there waiting for your flight and you hear

0:26.7

your voice over the PA announcing that parking outside is a technical foul.

0:32.4

But in the last couple of months, she's become known for something else, her all-female coaching staff. This spring,

0:40.2

reporters just kept asking about it. You know, I was asked the question, you know, how do you like it?

0:45.8

And I thought, yeah, it's great. You know, I don't know that I'd hire another guy. And then the

0:49.3

headline turned into, Muffet McGraw will never hire a man, and it kind of blew up a little bit.

0:54.8

This was back in April.

0:56.4

Muffet was headed to the final four, about to play her biggest rival, Yukon, when she sat down for a press conference.

1:03.8

Muffet, I know you made some comments about hiring practices and what you do in the future.

1:08.2

Another reporter asked her about her coaching staff.

1:11.3

That's when Muffet took a deep breath and just lit in.

1:15.9

Did you know that the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in 1967 and it still hasn't passed?

1:22.3

She talks for a solid two minutes, uninterrupted, not just about women in sports, but about women in politics,

1:29.9

about women in leadership, period.

1:32.0

We don't have enough female role models.

1:33.8

We don't have enough visible women leaders.

1:35.9

We don't have enough women in power.

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