四、篇章結構：
        Female coaches – especially across baseball, basketball, and football – are suddenlyexpanding their presence in the uppermost ranks of men’s professional sports. During the past18 months alone, at least 12 women in MLB organizations, 12 women in NBA organizations,and eight women in the NFL were working as full-time coaches. This doesn’t include thedozens more   31    .
        While women still occupy only a fraction of such positions, their nascent movement intocoaching represents what some believe could be the beginning of a second gender revolutionin sports almost 50 years after the passage of Title IX. The new coaches are inspiring ageneration of young female athletes,   32   , and may usher in new ways of motivating proathletes – and even winning.
        The recent influx of women into coaching is being driven by a host of factors, not leastof which is the inevitable march of history. Women have been   33    . The doors to lockerrooms and film rooms just relented later than most.
         Yet the biggest reason for the advances is the tenacity of the women themselves. Manyhave excelled as athletes. They have labored long and sacrificed heavily to build upexperience over time, and burnished their résumés by   34    . They have taken on short-termcontracts and occupied temporary positions – all while   35   . Perhaps most important, thewomen who are now guiding and developing professional athletes weren’t afraid to confrontthe pressures and overcome the doubts of being “first.”

(AB)getting advanced degrees
(AC)occupying mental skills and player development roles
(AD)seeing some of them able to kind of bear the fruits of that labor
(AE)hiring a greater diversity of people with a wider variety of skills
(BC) busting through barriers in almost every profession for decades
(BD)chipping away at the glass walls around men’s professional leagues
(BE)bringing greater diversity to one of the last bastions of male-dominated culture
(CD)happening in business, or politics, and all of these other places where we’re seeing more
【題組】31.