The Buffalo Bills named Kathryn Smith as the full-time NFL female assistant coach yesterday.

This is a big, meaningful victory for men as well as women and for all of us who are parents and want to see equality across the board in sports.

This is also a big victory for the federal program known as Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in any federally funded education program or activity.

Young men have grown up watching their sisters succeed on their own in sports and the world and NFL is ready for bending the gender barrier further.

A victory for young children who now have another female role model to look up to.

When feminism was at its height, my sister said to me something I obviously never forgot:  Equal rights are the best thing to ever happen to men.  It frees men to be part of the solution.

So if you have a mother, a wife, a sister or child, root for Kathryn Smith and all the many other women who will make sports more diverse and therefore better.

And the NFL – no dummies – is on the sidelines encouraging this metamorphosis because 45% of their fan base is women.

Now they have something real to cheer about.

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