The Gender Gap In Sport Performance: Equity Influences Equality

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.

Women have struggled for more than two centuries to be taken serious as professionals. There should not be a double standard in sports especially if it is loved and played by both genders. Over the years, females have competed against the stereotype of being too fragile both mentally and physically to play strenuous sports. The passion and work ethic of the female professional athletes is just as strong as the males and everyone should be treated equal and be able to have a chance at making a better living for themselves as well as their family. One area that still faces a continual struggle in sports is gender equality. Female

American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias earned more medals, broke more records, and swept more tournaments in more sports than any other athlete, male or female, in the twentieth century. Within recent years, women have made huge strides in the world of sports and athletics but are still not getting proper recognition for the time, effort, and talent these women have put into their sport. Gender equality is a major problem in athletics, Title XI, sports media, and the sexualisation of females involved in athletics shows the clear divide in gender equality amongst men’s and women’s sports.

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 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

Gender challenges in sports have been around for centuries. Male and female genders are treated differently in more than one way. The research I have gathered show the differences in all aspects of sports related business areas such as, ticket sales, facilities, price of tickets, media coverage, Sports Illustrated covers, and sports reporters. The purpose of this research is to bring attention the disparities that women follow in the business of sports. Women are stereotyped, discriminated against, and harassed in all aspects I have discussed. So my final thoughts on my research are that women will always be acknowledged for their beauty, body, and sex appeal. A woman’s knowledge of sports, athleticism, and love for the

Women have been oppressed throughout the history of sports. There are many ways in which female athletes have been oppressed. Some examples are in the Olympics, in schools, in other countries, in the U.S, the comparison of male athletes to female and many more. Based on records, documentaries, articles, etc. of women’s sports, it is evident that female athletes are not treated equally to men by both sports organizations and the general public.

It is expected that women were not very involved in athletics due to their domestic responsibilities, but as time progressed, more women stepped out of their separate spheres to pursue opportunities that were thought to be “masculine.” The Olympic Games was crucial to the emergence of women participation in societal events since it broke the social barriers that prevented them from gaining equality. Although the first modern Olympic Games only allowed male

In other words, men are the default in sport and women are “othered.” While women have been, and continue to be, disadvantaged by sport media, a newer gender issue has been given more attention in recent years. As the typically restrictive categories

To finish, the article by Knoppers, Meyer and Comeaux explored the method of gender, by showing the point of view in every context of sport for female such as soccer and basketball. However, both of those sports demonstrated that how woman, gender is not different, but able to do anything men are able to accomplish. First of all, those articles discussed the result that physical movement involved with playing sports does not harm any woman's players' body, in fact, it provides a better health and reduce any types of sickness or mental health condition. Nowadays, women sports have increasingly developed around the world, at this time and moment, women are starting to earn more than they used to be, society have more respect for them and the

With the rise of feminism, gender inequality has been quite the topic in todays time. With the wanting of equal rights and treatment it has been pointed out as per which all places males have the hegemonic overview and women are the oppressed; one of the areas where its unequal in gender is in sport. This paper will examine and break down the issues regarding sex and gender biases within sports in modern day media and how it can be resolved.

Since the media always broadcasts men playing various sports it explains why, women are not seen. Which is why their ratings do not appear and they struggle for viewers. I believe that gender equality in sport is non-existent and this is not fair. Young female athletes who put in the same amount of hard work and dedication as men, are not as justified since Women’s games are usually shown at non peak viewing times compared to men’s and this discrimination means that they do not have a following or access to true publicity. This year many viewers have witnessed some great women’s sports such as soccer. Australia’s summer sport broadcasted more women’s games, but where

As we are in the 21-century, sport appears to be everywhere. Across the world a million TV, broadcast, news about all the sport events such as the 2000 SYDNEY GAMES, the OLYMPIC GAMES, the WORLD CUP. We are constantly investigated by media in the form of advertisements, newspaper, online news which telling us what is going on around the world. Media has strongly affected on society’s perception. All among the information and misleading information portrayed by the media, there is an imbalance gender between male and female are present in the FIFA WORLD CUP 2015. The issue of imbalance gender between male and female in media report is very important because it shows the unequal between men and women. This following essay will analayse the positive and negative of this issue and also discuss why imbalance between female and male in media report has grown into an issue.

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

The adverse topic of women in sports stems from society's disregard to viewing women as persons. Women were, and in other parts of the world continue to be viewed as property of men and have no significant role in society. Being allowed into the Olympics was a step in the right direction for women across the world, but it was meager attempt equality. Women were still restricted by what events they were allowed to compete in, how they were trained and coached and even limited as to what they could wear. A woman’s femininity played a large role in the way they were perceived by society; weak. Women were seen as incommensurate to men and it was something that has taken us centuries to reverse. Today, women are given the rights we should have