Sport And Gender Analysis

Across the world, society holds men and women to different standards. There are precise gender roles and stereotypes that are well established. In the western world, women are supposed to be nurturers, cleaners, and the chef. Whereas men are perceived as strong, independent, and athletic. When these social norms are broken, it is not uncommon for specific labels to be given, such as being called a lesbian. Over the past few centuries, these stereotypes and gender roles have been challenged by many women and feminists. An area where these stereotypes and gender roles have been under scrutiny and analyzed is in the world of sport and physical activities. However, traditional female stereotypes continue to conquer. Gender inequality has accomplished small victories but is still an enormous part of sports which is evident through the little recognition received for competitions along with the difference between men’s and women’s professional level of sport, being looked at as attractive instead of being talented, and the very few female coaches. Eventually, there is hope that the sports world will not be considered the masculine domain, and there will no longer be a legacy of bias against the female athlete.

Australia is widely regarded as both characterised and united by sport. Sport has an elevated place in Australia's official and popular national culture, and the country’s reputation for being a 'paradise of sport' has become a largely unquestioned aspect of the Australian way of life. Gender is a social construct that outlines the roles, behaviours, characteristics and actions that a specific society deems appropriate for men and women (WHO, 2014). The established relationship between gender equality and sport is a widely regarded issue in not only Australia, but all around the world. Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society, including sport and physical recreation

Within sport, as throughout society, gender differences exist. The socially constructed phenomenon of gender dictates a dichotomous system whereby females are feminine and males are masculine. Focusing on females specifically, society determines the feminine traits and roles ascribed to this gender. Being domesticated, slender, passive and heterosexual are a part of the desirable appearance that society has formed surrounding femininity (Wolf, 1991). On the other side of the dichotomy is the masculine realm that sport plays into. Sport is fuelled by muscle, power and aggressiveness, which are behaviours and images associated to masculinity. Sport therefore, defies all existing female gender ideals. It would be assumed that females have no place within this institution due to the gender clash. However, female athletes do exist, and many are very successful. For this to work, sport has established and reinforced the social constructions of gender that exist in society. Female athletes are viewed as inferior and are pushed into gender appropriate sports. Furthermore, they are often labeled as masculine until they can prove otherwise, and so great attempts are made to reassert femininity. The stigma associated to being masculine or homosexual for female athletes is so great that many have become irrationally fearful of this label. The sexualisation of the female body and overt displays of heterosexuality are used in

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 reasons 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 symbolizes 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 years, especially opportunities and benefits. Although sports provide opportunities for both males and females, female participating in sports generally have less opportunities to

The sounds of yelling and playful banter resonate throughout the locker room after practice. While the locker room has always exhibited a rowdy climate, today’s locker room is a little different than in the past. Across almost every college and university campus in the United States, students suffer from the effects of “gendering” both in their private realm and within the school’s institutions. In the case of Oxy, the concept of gender as a set of solidified roles has been largely eradicated. However, while the freedom of gender choice remains at the core of Occidental’s values, we continue to see some rigid gender differences and boundaries in realm of athletics, which in itself is an institution. Athletics does not perpetuate differences

In 1972 a policy known as Title IX was written and mandated into Federal policy. Title IX states “no person.....shall, on the basis of sex….be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance” (Glenn Sacks, “Title IX Lawsuits are Endangering Men’s College Sports,” p. 3). Many high schools and colleges have not been able to comply with the Title IX standards mostly because of money. After more than 30 years since the beginning of Title IX, there is still no gender equality among men and women in sports.

By using the mean, median, and mode of the results recorded, I believe women and men will be alike in ways people did not expect. By looking at the content of fat and muscle composition on the calf, weight of a female/male, and the ability to vertically jump, evidence will be provided that physical activity does not solely rely on the gender of a person. If the circumference of any persons’ calf is high due to fat then their ability to jump higher will decrease because of lack of muscle and/or lack of physical activity. Comparing men and women though, research leads to evidence that men can jump higher than women. If a man and a woman’s were compared, a man will be able to jump higher due to higher testosterone, activity of a male, and the muscle composition of a male.

Zimmerman’s articulation of how gender is rooted in the institutionalization of functions in society can be seen as a viable explanation of how the concept of “doing gender “ comes about in sports. This being evidenced by cases such as that of Lana lawless, a transgender athlete in the Ladies Professional Golfing Association (LPGA).Although she had a sex reassignment surgery that qualifies her both sexually and genderly as a female, the association bypassed a law that required the participants to have been “born female to compete”.A marginalizing rule for transgender athletes that forced her to take legal actions since the rule violated her civil rights in the state of California. She ultimately won against the golfing league.Its Cases like this that get to show us how sporting institutions overtime have worked to monitor the performance of gender through sanctions.

When it comes to talking about sports,it is all about the enthusiasm a reporter puts into it. For example you would probably much rather listen to a person who sounds pumped and energetic instead of someone who sounds bored out of their mind. Lets compare these two reporters talking about both a man and woman baseball player hitting a home run “a sports anchor discussed a Giancarlo Stanton hit: ‘‘Wow! Take another look at this one. He just absolutely destroys them! You can see the speed on that swing in real time. And you just stand and admire a shot like that.’’ Later, a sports analyst gushed over Yoenis Céspedes:‘‘Céspedes kept getting better and better, and the home runs kept getting longer and longer and the numbers got bigger and bigger.” Cheryl Cooky put this together and notice how Stanton gets all this glory but Cespedes hardly gets any recognition and the announcer makes the home runs seem boring.

It didn’t take long for the puns to start on social media regarding Doug Weight and his head coaching debut for the New York Islanders as they prepared to take on the Dallas Stars in Brooklyn. Admittedly, I joined in the ‘fun’ leading up to faceoff and at select times throughout the game. After all, why should you have all the fun?

“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.

The problem that this article addressed is the unequal attention that men get in the media compared to women, specifically in sports. The purpose of this article was to see if men and women were getting the same amount of media attention in college basketball. This study mainly looked to the coverage that men and women college basketball got on the internet during the time of March Madness. This study also focused on the biggest sports media program with ESPN.

In addition to the gender ideology portrayed within the film, class ideology was also represented as Maggie accepted the fact she was a working-class individual (Gilbert, Summer 2015a). As Scrap, the caretaker of Frankie’s gym stated, “she knew she was trash” (Eastwood, 2004). In this particular scene, Maggie was taking the leftovers from a customer’s plate from the restaurant she worked at, so that she had something to eat that evening for dinner. Although Maggie accepted the fact she was a working-class individual, she wanted to avoid the working-class life and thought her athletic abilities in boxing would allow for social mobility (Gilbert, Summer 2015d). As sport is a representation of social class (Gilbert, Summer 2015d), it can be assumed

If I could choose the gender, intelligence, athleticism of my children, would I do it?

The difference between female and male sports is the physicality of the game. Males receive a lot more head injuries than females, but the numbers still indicate that females sustain a reasonable amount of head injuries as well. When a women receive a concussion it takes longer to recover, and a female are at a greater risk after receiving a concussion. The reason for this is that females don’t have the neck support or strength to sustain directs hits to the head area. Also, females’ heads are naturally smaller than males’ head, which means they have smaller brains, and that is a major part why they have greater risk rather than a male.