Women in the NHL There is this sport that you skate around on ice and try to get points by hitting a puck into the other team 's goal with a stick. It’s one of the most popular sports in the world. The profession team is called the National Hockey League (NHL), where there are over 25 teams in the league. This sport is really rough and competitive, it’s mostly a men 's sport. If women were to play in the NHL they would be a huge role model. They have women hockey leagues, but they don’t have any professional team other than the Olympics team. Women today are achieving so many things that will go down in history. They would also be sending out a message, that girls can do anything they put their mind to. Everyone remembers their first …show more content…
As a sport industry women are just beginning, and that means we will be seeing more women entering the sport field. Jen Welter, is now the first female coach in NFL history, she will be the coach of the inside linebackers for the Arizona Cardinals (Nichols,2015). Women are starting to make their appearance, but it’s a real struggle. These women are helping shape the game by being coaches, but what about them playing. Especially with hockey, since it’s a fast paced game, with a lot of roughhousing and really big guys. For women to enter the NHL they are going to have to be ready for a challenge. It would make us have a different outlook on the way the game is played. There have been a few females to play in professional hockey, just not in a full season with an NHL team. Women are becoming a big part of the sport industry. We see women being fans, coaches, executives, etc. The advancement of women often stop just below the general management level. The closest someone has ever gotten is an assistant general manager. Her name is Kim Ng, she worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers and reached the postseason eight times, the LCS six times and won three World Championships. She had been worked in that position for 12 seasons with the team. Prior to joining the Dodgers, Kim Ng served as Vice President and Assistant General Manager for the New York Yankees (Colletti, 2014). She is currently the Senior Vice-President for Baseball Operations with Major League Baseball and the highest
In today's society women are able to become anything they wish. Generations ago women did not have the privilege to become what they truly desired compared to the women of today. Although women can become anything they desire, they cannot succeed financially. Women are still underpaid in many areas, especially in Pro Sports. The disparity in pay for women compared men's pro sports is absurd. Female athletes have also seen greater success in sports as well and have been belittled and condemned of the rewards they rightfully deserve for the achievements in their sports. It is simple, gender should not define pay in pro sports, especially if they both have equal to or greater success in their respected sports.
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 careers in every job field such as business, science but in sports they do not have opportunities to go ahead and pursue a successful career. If we think about it in school, sport teams there are more men coaches than women there are barely any female coaches out there that are teaching others any sport. According to Emily Dugan women were surveyed and almost fifth of the women said that their careers have stalled because managers failed to promote them or offer training as stated in the
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
From a young age, children are conditioned to always think about what they want to be when they grow up. Many of them dream to be a ballerina, firefighter, or an astronaut. With age comes maturity, and those aspirations pass, but simultaneously new, more realistic ones arise. To reach these new goals, these children work toward their dream through dedication, which can be seen in the studying or training they do. In today’s society females have more opportunity to do what they dream. There are young women who are assiduously working to get a college degree and a steady job. Then, there are also women who are training to become a professional athlete, with the aspiration of becoming a member of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT). In today’s society, women can pursue their goals, however, if compared to men’s sports, there can be differences seen that keep women from reaching full potential, equality, and their dreams.
Looking at the National Hockey League in comparison to the National Women's Hockey League, the quality of playing is far better for the men than it is the women. While both leagues were established for the same reason, to play hockey, the logistics are as different as they can be. Women are treated far more poorly than the men in about every aspect of professional sports. Even though it was born out of the National Hockey League, the National Women’s Hockey League is not only challenged, but compared to every aspect of the NHL, which includes: wages, rules and regulations, LGBT norms, and the overall questioning of why women and men cannot play together in one league. Despite the downsides the women league faces, the player
Have you ever wondered about how women now have their own sports or how they became accepted? Well, it all started with women who had perseverance and a dream, even if they didn't get recognized for it. ***(Marcenia Lyle was an incredible baseball player and impacted the game tremendously by never giving up on her dream, being a woman playing in a men’s league, and by changing the normal way of sports.)***
The Canadian women were a huge influence to developing ice hockey for women and are the reason for the growth of the sport in other countries. One individual that does redefine the sport of ice hockey is Manon Rheaume who fought the barriers of integration. Manon’s efforts and determination to challenge her abilities was one of the biggest developments in women’s hockey. No only was Manon making a statement during her career but she was bringing attention to women’s ice hockey. Through Manon’s task oriented goals of challenging her abilities she became a part of the men’s team. She proved not only that she was good enough to play at a high level but also that women are highly capable to compete with the men through the act of integration of sexes.
Ladies like Becky Hammon, Spurs assistant coach, Nancy Lieberman, Kings assistant coach, Jen Welter, Cardinals assistant coaching intern, and Kathryn Smith, Bills special teams quality control coach, have made their mark that females can coach in male dominant sports. Stereotypes are a widely labeled image or idea of a person or thing and a misconception is formed from a stereotype but based on an opinion that's incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking. The reason why we have stereotypes and misconceptions are because people judge others based on what they see over and over again and they just assume that everyone's like that. This is way there's barely any female coaches because people think that if a female coached they won’t be taken
This past week at All-Star game fanfest the All-Star caliber talent wasn't just on the field. A panel of baseball minds sat down to discuss baseball gender diversity. The panel was led by mostly women in the industry, including several front offices. The women discussed the challenges that women still face in a male dominated industry. The panel was hosted by Kim Ng. For those of you that don't know her, she has forged a path for women in America's pasttime.
Major League Baseball is a baseball league exclusively for men, but there is a lack of diversity inside a lot of the baseball team organizations there is a lack of women in the front offices. The Chicago Cubs has never had a woman as vice president but they do have woman, Laura Ricketts, as a co-owner of the team. The Cubs haven’t won a world series in a very long time and I feel for them to become a contender, they must start by reassembling their front office staff. I personally been around a lot of women that had strong knowledge in sports especially baseball. The organization should look for women that have a strong knowledge in managing accounts because a lot of problems with organizations is managing their salary caps, which could be
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.
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
You bring up such an interesting topic presently in the game of hockey. Historically, the game has not been very accommodating for women in leadership positions in the sport. Yet, even in rare occasions when women were granted positions in professional hockey, they were criticized by many for their lack of knowledge of the sport and leadership skills. For example, in 2013, the former, professional minor league team, 1000 Islands Privateers (Federal Hockey League) of Alexandria Bay, NY were coached by their female owner and president, Nicole Kirnan, at the end of the season after their head coach, Paul Kelly, resigned. Although the team won games, Kirnan’s tenure was met with criticism from bloggers. This is a good read concerning
During this century women have been able to break out of the traditional female mold. Women have broken the chains that bond them to the home and have emerged into all sorts of male dominated arenas, including sports. Women have become athletes in their own right. In the last ten years there has been validation for the female athlete. The WNBA was created giving women a professional league in a mainstream traditionally male sport for the first time since the All American Girls Professional Baseball League went out of existence in the 1950s. And recently a woman made the cut and participated on the professional golf circuit with the men. Today, we see women athletes in the media regularly. Women's college basketball is given airtime on weekends just as men's is.