Men's Sports Vs Women

Upon starting college, I was done with sports as far as participating on a team. I knew I wanted to be involved wherever I could be. I enrolled in a class titled, “Girls & Women in Sport.” The class was built upon a sociological approach. In this class, I learned the importance of sex versus gender, the role of Title IX in sports, gender roles, as well as the psychological impacts of athletic participation on women.

Ever since the ancient Greece, men have held athletic competitions or sports. It is only in modern times that women have had an opportunity to compete. Most sports still don't have men and women directly competing against one another. In the past athletic instructors adapted the rules to make sports less physically taxing for women. For instance in basketball, to ensure that girls maintain proper decorum, they were forbidden from snatching the ball and dribbling it more than three times in row. Females would not be considered strong enough to play a full-court basketball game until 1971. Women have struggled to be taken seriously as athletes for more than two centuries. Over the years, females have

while women in world sports are often being misjudged. Male- dominant sports culture often come from the way women in society are viewed. (Brittney Griner leads men and women in the big twelve.) “It’s not how big you are it’s how big you play”. Female sports are highly underestimated. Watch and support women's sports because they work just as hard as the men teams do. “It’s as though the producers and commentators are thinking, ‘If we can't say anything sexist, then we can't say anything at all about women's sports”. Networks struggle to understand how much trouble these female athletes go through, just for there gender let alone being a athlete.

How is it fair that a men’s college basketball team is able to be transported on planes and dine on steak, while a women’s team from the same college, travels in a van and eats fast food? It’s not, but this occurs often nowadays even with laws passed preventing this type of discrimination. In 1972, Congress passed Title IX, which prohibits discrimination against girls and women in federally funded education, including athletic programs (Kiernan 3). Many schools and colleges have not been able to comply with the Title IX standards mostly because of money. Some of the problems in high schools and colleges consist of insufficient scholarships for girls, not enough coaching jobs, a lack of equipment, and a limited amount of supplies. Not only

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.

Within these recent years, women sports have taking a huge turn around even if the stats and numbers say otherwise. The fast uprising, influence and value of women sports fans has been one of the most distinctive changes in the sports marketing landscape in the last 40 years thanks to the Education Amendments and Title IX. We can see the impact of the second generation of young women growing up with much interest in sports, and female sporting celebrities who are closing the gap with their male counterparts. Many give the credit to this thanks to the US national soccer team. When they won the World Cup in 1991 the nation had no idea it had happened. In 1999 the team got to the final again and that game got millions of fans supporting there

Schwarz, C., Gairrett, L., Aruguete, S., and Gold, S. (2005) stated that the purpose of this article is to find out whether there is a difference in eating attitudes, body dissatisfaction, and perfectionism among female athletes and non-athletes involved in a variety of collegiate sports. Finding out how perfectionism, eating attitudes or body dissatisfaction may relate to either judged or refereed sports may indicate that there is an eating disorder. If there is an indication of an eating disorder for a specific type of sport or even non-athletes, the research will help prevent this.

Be pretty, handsome, but nothing in between. For a man, play a man’s sport like football or basketball. Then for the ladies, most people would prefer that they don’t play those sports, but what can be expected when they grew up with all males? In the collaborative book Gender Failure by Ivan Cayote and Rae Spoon, who have lived as woman but feel as if they are meant to be males, they talk about how they failed their roles as both females and males. In the course of history people have failed the gender binary, failed to see how transgender people live, and even today what the transgender community still faces today.

Sexism limits our country. In a world where sexism still exists, women face challenges every day as they choose to embark in athletic activities. Even with the efforts of Title IX, which was established in 1972, there is not equality in sports for men and women. Sexism is real with stereotypes and discrimination on the basis of sex. Even with the high level of success reached by numerous female athletes of many different sports, male athletes always seem to have the upper hand. Whether it is pay, media, support, gear, or playing grounds, one sex always has the better of the two. Male athletes dominate a field that truly is shared by both sexes. What if we treated male athletes the way we treat female athletes? That is a world hard to imagine, and honestly, it shouldn't be. Through female athletes sharing their stories of unfair treatment and pay, sexism and generations of inequality in sports can be overcome.

The activities I chose to ask the class about are mostly individual activities, for example reading. Playing sports and hanging out with friends are the only group activities I asked the participants about. My results show that the men have a higher score for physical activities, like playing sports. The average man’s score for sports was 9.8 compared to 5.8 for the average woman’s score, however I expected the average scores to be more similar because I think there is a big push now for both genders to be active and participate in physical activities. Parents believe that participating in sports will teach kids how to handle winning and losing, build leadership, and learn how to be a team player, so they see it as a useful experience that both genders should participate in. My data shows that in general both men and women participated somewhat equally in group activities, as both had high scores for hanging out with friends, which was the activity boys and girls had most in common. The scores also seem to be pretty similar for the individual activities as well.

Buss et al. (1992) were one of the few researchers to investigate romantic jealousy between sex differences in support of the evolutionary theory. They hypothesized that men and women would differ in romantic jealousy due to the evolutionary history. Buss et al. (1992) measured jealousy differences in men and women by conducting 3 sub-studies. In the first study, infidelity differences between 202 undergraduate students were measured by 3 different methods. The first method was a self-report survey. Participants were instructed to imagine a specific scenario, and then to choose the

Men Vs. Women in Professional Sports      Ever since the ancient Greece, men have held athletic competitions or sports. It is only in modern times that women have had an opportunity to compete. Most sports still don’t have men and women directly competing against one another. In the past athletic instructors adapted the rules to make sports less physically taxing for women. For instance in basketball, to ensure that girls maintain proper decorum, they were forbidden from snatching the ball and dribbling it more than three times in row. Females would not be considered strong enough to play a full-court basketball game until 1971. Women have struggled to be taken seriously as athletes for more than two centuries.

Many women play sports, but they have made less money than men who play, But now they fight. I believe that men earn more because they make more money than women do. But women play the same sport as the men do. Because they play the same sport they should get the same amount of money. But I believe men should earn more because, they don't bring in as much revenue as men do. Therefore men have more money distributed among all of them. Also Novak Djokovic says “The stats show we have more spectators than women.” This means that the more people watching the more money they make. The men have more spectators than the woman so they make more money. Finally sports are generally more man dominated. Meaning that there's more sports for men, and they

Yes, and one of the main reasons form that I see is that there are not as much female professional sports than male. When I look at college sport pages and you look at the sports there are more female sports than boys’ sports at some schools. Even though they have more sports to play most of them has no opportunity further they sport careers. In the Playing Unfair video it said “we infrequently see images of women athletes as athletes” this got me thinking of RSM 317 and the 6 ways the media portrays the female athlete. Out of the 6 ways you really do not see Athletic competence. Athletic competence is the way the athlete is portrayed in uniform, on court, or in action. An example of how men differs from women is http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/media/2.0/teamsites/warriors/images/CurrySICover_ForWeb.jpg and http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2015/12/500198452_16443158_8col.jpg both of these photos are link to 2 sports illustrated cover magazines. One is Stephen Curry shooting a 3 point shot and the other is Serena Williams in a non-athletic cover shoot that has nothing to do with her sport.

Similarly women are receiving less attention and media coverage than men. When someone puts on the television and turns on a sports game, it is most likely going to be a men’s sport. Even when females get their coverage, the commentators are usually talking about their body rather than their skill. In an article, “Examination of Gender Equality and Female Participation in Sport” by Joshua A. Senne, he talks about how women are referred by their appearance rather than their skill. During a study about the media, the commentators mostly talked about the women’s hair, make-up, and body figure, rather than their ability. This also occurred after the 1996 summer Olympics, where there was a lack of promotion for female athletes and the marketing of women’s sports. These athletes were also only recognized by their physical appearance instead of their ability. The tone of these broadcasters was proved in a study that men 's events were the standard in the society rather than the women’s. They would list the event as “other” rather than saying it is a women’s sport. In the study that was conducted, it states that the gender marketing showed that the woman sports were marked as “other” on an average of 27.5 times, but it 's never happened in the men’s sporting events (Senne). There is still coverage of women 's sports, but it rarely covered. The title IX project made a pie chart about the comparison of men’s and women’s sports media coverage on the show SportsCenter on