Gender In Sports Analysis Essay

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.

Females interests of competitive sports have gained the attention of the College and

Over a millennium, women and men sports have never been viewed the same. When sports were first originated it was only meant for men to compete. During this time, women were forbidden to compete. Woman were always underestimated or never taken for serious. Even to this day women sports are still being seen the same way, especially in high school sports. One school in particular that will be focused on in this paper is in the city of Saint Paul called Washington Technology Magnet School. This school is a victim just like many other schools out there that women 's sports are not getting enough fundings compared to the men 's programs they have because woman sports are being considered inferior. One way to solve this problem, in this

Many people enjoy watching sports, but primarily men received the chance to participate in athletics until the passage of Title IX. The MARGARET Fund of the National Women’s Law Center (2016) states that “only 1 in 27 girls played high school sports”

Woman’s sustained involvement in ‘male’ team sports has only occurred relatively recently. Woman’s participation in sport has been blunted by

Recreation and sport is historically known as a manly practice all around the world. Sport is typically associated with males that have led to the stereotype of sport equaling masculinity (Obenour, 2002, p. 2). A lot has changed when it comes to gender roles but it seems still to this day that women have less power than men, this is noticeable in recreation and sport in the 21st century. There has been a decrease in athletic leadership positions at the youth and college levels occupied by women ever since Title IX was passed in 1972. Research shows that female coaches has decreased by 48% and is still decreasing at a rapid rate (Blom, 2011, p. 54).

The sports world has been a new area where women are recognized. In previous times women’s sports were almost non-existent. In schools many girl teams did not receive adequate funds for uniforms and equipment. Boys sports were much more popular, such as football or basketball. If a girl wanted to play a guy sport she would be labeled as a

Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs, but it had the greatest impact in increasing the opportunity for females in sports. The participation opportunities for females in sports are at its highest rate ever with 9,581 women’s intercollegiate teams in the NCAA in 2014, an increase of 307 since 2012 (Acosta & Carptenter, 2014). Despite the increased number of female

Money is usually a problem with many things in life, one of them also happens to be gender equality. Colleges and universities spend an average of $1.6 million on the men’s athletics program. Yet, the women’s athletic teams receive nearly half that amount (Almond 2). Women should not be receiving half the amount that a men’s team gets just because their sports are less ‘popular’ than men’s. A school’s main objective may be to promote the men’s team first, to get out of a deficit. Then they may be able to finance the women’s team with the money they make from the men’s sporting events. That is not an equal or fair solution. It would take years to pay off a deficit and then sufficiently finance the female athletic programs. Numerical equality would take a vast quantity of public tax money in addition to the financial assistance that now pays for most of women’s sports. Universities increased its support of women’s athletics over the years but according to Ellen Voelz,

Race, gender, history and sexual orientation play major roles in women's participation in sport. Through out the history of women in sport, opportunity has increased. Many athletes and coaches are presented with the issue of sexual orientation throughout their sporting career. Regardless of sexual orientation, all female athletes are affected by heterosexism. One's racial or ethnicity background greatly shapes the experience they may have in sport. This essay explores the many issues women in sport face today.

Sexism in sports is prominent in Arlington High School. Support from students and faculty for the boys’ sports games do not compare to the girls’ games. As a player on the girls’ basketball team, it sometimes discourages us into thinking we are not good enough, or other times it motivates us. The school’s twitter page or the Poughkeepsie Journal will sometimes write only about the boys success and not ours. What makes us different?

Knowledge of why certain gender groups attend more men's games then womens has great importance for understanding how to raise attendance as well as awareness. The reasons why groups attend the games they do are still not completely understood, especially for Division 2 schools. For, Division 1, it has been claimed that attendance to their women's basketball tournament games has risen since 2008 (name xxx). The tournament is the culmination of the season, it features the top teams from each conference battling for one title, champion. However, major universities such as Texas, Utah and Georgetown still face declining attendance for regular season games (name xxxx). If attendance is on the rise why are these schools and Division 2 schools still

While female student participation in college athletics is increasing, it does not come close to men’s participation or finances. Female participation has increased by 3,550 while men’s participation increased by 6,431 almost double of their female counterparts (American Association of University Women, 2013). In addition, the NCAA Gender Equity Report shows that in the 2009-2010 school year, the total revenue for men was $5,519,600, while women’s was significantly lower at $2,622,900 (NCAA, 2010). Although Title IX has provided opportunity for both sexes in college athletics, male participation is still dominating. However, recent trends are indicating that athletic programs have taken action to promote female

Since the introduction of title 9, women’s involvement in college and professional sports has drastically increased, but the media representation of women’s events is still significantly less than that of men’s, despite women making up more than half the world population. With that

In the last one hundred years women have made tremendous inroads in many facets of life. Of that there can be little doubt. Women may now hold jobs, own property and participate in professional sports. Today women can compete in sports, once a vestige of male domination; there is now room for women in that arena. But even today women in sports are not portrayed in the same light as their male counterparts. To a large degree this is because of today's cultural ideal of women.