Gender Gap In Sport

Women in professional sports fits into the Sex and Power: Global Gender Inequality class because many female athletes have experienced the inequalities in a professional sports setting. Female athletes are being put down by gender inequalities, causing less females participating in athletic programs. Women athletes are being paid less than their male counterparts. Along with being paid less, female and males are receiving unequal benefits in the form of scholarship, media coverage, transportation, and stadium conditions. The professional sport’s world is filled with the obsession of body image and sexuality. Through this obsession, female athletes have been abused from the people they trust the most. There is an increasing inequality in women’s professional sports in the form of pay, sexuality, and abuse.

According to Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in [the] Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.” Because of the establishment of this international document, much progression toward the equality of rights for all with inherited and acquired traits has been achieved over time. In particular, gender equality has made a great deal of headway since the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. Even though this may be the case, there is no doubt that female athletes are far from considered equal as compared to male athletes in modern sports. In today’s sports society, women athletes are still discriminated against based on lower salaries, less media coverage, and lack of opportunity.

Women’s equality is an issue that has been around for awhile. While women have been given many rights to increase equality, including the right to vote and go to college, the problem hasn’t completely vanished. One area that still sees this is in sports. Women’s sports do not draw nearly as many fans and are not covered in the media as much as men’s sports, pay differences between male and female athletes are large, and female athletes have to wait longer to start their professional career than men, which risks their professional career before it even starts.

Through the movies viewed in this course this semester, we saw women who were able to play against men and still keep their femininity. Nothing is lost when playing sports not traditionally meant for a particular race or gender. Society must become more understanding when it comes to the sports different types of people play and hinder from stereotyping anyone when they participate and perform well in that sport.

Gender equality is an important part of society. In an article on why everyone should be concerned about what is happening with equality and should be supportive of advances in equality, the article emphasizes how important equality is to the future of young women and girls for their careers (Huhman). Female employees can sometimes be treated unfairly or be held to a higher standard than their male colleagues. Women who take on leadership positions in their companies or careers are able to help make improvements in gender equality and in the workplace. Additionally, in another article, women work together to be activists for equality in sports and work to normalize the participation of girls in sports often dominated by ale participants (Yi and Bhalla). By working to make seeing girls in sports more common, girls are inspired to join sports by other female athletes. This creates a ripple effect and eventually causes more girls to take on leadership positions on teams and higher roles in their sports. Many of these girls can carry on these leadership qualities at school and eventually as young women in the workforce. By inspiring these young female athletes to take on these roles and to inspire others, they can promote gender equality and normalize the idea of females playing contact sports.

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” (Anderson). These thirty seven words, known as Title IX, have transformed the athletic community for both males and females over the past forty two years. Many wonder why there is still so much talk about the inequalities of female and male sports even after forty two years of the enactment of Title IX. Violations of this law still occur and some may be closer to home than one thinks. In 2009, the Office of Civil Rights received a complaint for New Hanover County being out of compliance with Title IX which initiated a full investigation of all facilities and programs within the county (George). Soon, a list of issues found in the county was released with proper solutions that needed to be fulfilled within a short amount of time for risk of losing federal funding (George). Title IX is responsible for the constant maintenance and changes being done to equalize female and male sport’s programs because of the major impact sports have on female’s lives. After analyzing the current quality of athletics under Title IX, it becomes evident that the situation needs to be improved because of the positive influences equal opportunity athletics have on female empowerment and other aspects.

Women’s treatment in sport has always been a manifestation of wider gender inequality which has

Women’s participation in sport has historically not been given the same coverage, funding, prize money, sponsorship or respect as men’s.

Gender inequality has always been an issue for women in athletics. The Title IX bill took a long time to come into effect, but when it did, it wasn’t seriously followed. Many high schools had an unequal distribution of school funds for athletic facilities. Some high schools’ girls’ locker rooms had “nearly half the size of the men’s locker rooms”, if they had locker rooms at all (Bellford). Examples like this show how the bill helped women get more opportunities, but it still didn’t give them the same opportunities as men. The problem of equality of genders has always been an issue in America, after the Title IX bill got passed things got better for women and they were able to do what they wanted to do, but there was still a lot of room for improvement. The general preconceptions about

First of all, there is gender inequality in sports. Sport as in a competitive athletic doing. Gender inequality is in college sports, community sports, and in professional sports. Before women played any sports, it was all men who played. Also, it seems as if there are more men who play sports than women. There is also more male sports, like sports where girls don 't play the sport because it 's more for males. For example, there is football, baseball, shooting, rugby, and more sports. Girls do play those sports, but it is not common for all the girls to

Gender Inequality should be resolved in sports, the salary and conditions need to be taken care of. Gender inequality in sports needs to be focused on. Many athletes have to find other ways for their achievements to be notices; they go to the extent on women athletes having to pose on the cover of swim suit covers just to get attention. Hannah Teter a very skilled Snow border has won two Olympic Metals and many other awards. These achievements meant nothing until she appeared in the Sports Illustrated 2010 Swimsuit collection. I’ve heard and read many stories like Hannah’s before, and have had to write many inequality essays on women and it all needs to be resolved. Gender inequality goes along way and has been seen in many stages, payment

elegant (e.g., grappling and submission). In this sense, it can be estimated that gender difference would affect the sport media consumption.

Sport has been one of the most important socio-cultural learning experiences for males and females. Sports provide an amazing release for people of all ages. People are requested and welcomed to play sports at any age. Sometimes there are many limitations due to personal reason that restrain people from participating in sport such as money, peer pressure, location, etc. For the last century males are expected to be strong, independent, and athletic. Male athletes masculinity symbolize an image of physical health, and sexual virility throughout their bodies as well. Nowadays, women’s participation in sports is becoming popular but it is still overshadowed by men’s. According to the Women’s Sport Foundation before the title IX “given equal athletic opportunities, women will rush to fill them; the remaining discrepancies in sports participation rates are the result of continuing discrimination in access to those opportunities” (“ Title IX Myths and Fact”). Under the title IX, female has the playing field been. Women now can participate in many sports, which were only played by men before. However, the main reason that female usually do not participate is due to gender inequity. Some of people believe that the inequity in sports has not changed over the period years especially opportunities and benefits. Although sports provides opportunities for both males and females, female participating in sports generally have less opportunities to advance or

There are thousands of women who are incredibly talented in their respective sports who have never been given the opportunity because of their gender. To me, society finds it incredibly easy to place this disdain on female athletes and I want to change that. I think it can be done. The Paralympics have already solved it. Understandably, I don’t think that providing equal opportunities for female athletes means anyone can play. As a collegiate athlete, I know the hard work required to get the highest level. By no means, do I want opportunities handed to people. However, if a women is as talented or more than men, that needs to be shown. There’s no exception. As a sports person, I want to see the best of the best and when we try to keep women out of the running, it’s dull and we end up seeing the same boring

Equality. A concept that this nation has strived to achieve. But in the 21st century, the question remains, are we equal? In the world of sports, participants from all over the world have come together to show their skill and compete with one another. For many young men getting up to such a degree is a goal that requires much skill to accomplish. But, for a woman such a goal is merely a dream, for we live in a world where a female athlete is not accepted in society. In the 21st century, female and male athletes differ enormously. A man is expected to show his skill and achieve fame. Women however, must do much more to achieve lesser fame. Great skill. Lower payment. Demanding exposure. Achieving access to a sport is easy today but to become famous is merely a dream for a woman. The movements for woman’s rights in sports have come a long way, but there is still much progress to be made until women can have equal opportunities as male athletes.