The Inaugural AFL Women's Football League

However there smaller all female leagues that let women play football after age 14. If there was no interest for women to play then these leagues wouldn’t exist. Over 22000 women play afl and these numbers keep growing.

An Additional barrier that women could face at this level could be an economic one, as the players at this level will need to be fully equipped with all of the basic equipment as well as travelling costs and coaching. This is a barrier because women do not get paid as much as men in football therefore they may have to acquire

Women have always had less involvement in sport than men. There may be reasons as to why women have less involvement. They may stop playing sport to focus on other thing like having children or a family. Women with family may also find it difficult due to a lack of money and time. These barriers can occur at any level of sports continuum from someone who may just want to exercise to keep fit (participation stage) but feels they can’t as the only classes available to them are mixed sex classes which they are not comfortable with. Other example, of the barriers to women may be that at the performance or excellence stage lack sponsorship, media coverage and government funding in women’s sport. This in turn means that women are unable to continue sport as a career and are limited to the level they are able to achieve as they can’t live by only playing sports and must get a job. There has been a large improvement in the amount of women involved in sport since scheme and government funded activities have been put in place to increase numbers of women’s only classes, competitive clubs and female teams in traditional male sport such as rugby, football and

It is true that some men's teams have been cut due to the inability to meet the requirements of Title IX. In actuality, It is not because of Title IX, but because of low budgets and administrative decisions. An alternative would be to reduce the funds that go into publicity sports, such as football and baseball. Many argue that adding women's teams does not work. While it is true that some schools have been unsuccessful in the past, A lot of schools have managed to accomplish this. Even Marbella and Wells cite that ¨Schools such as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have started women's bowling teams¨. Though some people may argue that it does more harm than good, Title IX should remain in action.

As stated previously, women have a much lower interest in competing in athletics, statistically speaking. For example, high schools must also obey the regulations put into play by Title IX by offering the same number of sports teams for each gender, thus giving high school students equal opportunities to participate in athletics. However, even though both male and females are offered the same opportunities, 1.4 million fewer females choose to compete in high school sports than males. Based on recent reports from the 2010-11 academic year from the state high school athletic associations from all 50 states, sports participation among genders is approximately 4.5 million boys, or 60% of total participation, as compared to approximately 3.1 million girls, or only 40% of total participation.(Toporek) Although this statistic clearly

Firstly gender has a marked effect on Australian sports playing and spectating. At the very start of the century woman played few sports because sports were too physically demanding for the body. The widespread acceptance of medicalised perspectives on female bodies served to limit female sporting involvement for a very long time. International Review for the sociology of sport 50 (4-5)pp.430-436. In todays society, there is still continuous inequality throughout the sporting industry amongst athletes and sporting teams. With sport being a strong influence, there are many ongoing consistencies.

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David Ludricks Buckley-Larson English 10-1 2/4/15 WWII PROPAGANDA WWII Nazi propaganda was a bad thing because the Nazis were saying Jews were bad people, Americans were liberators, and that Adolf Hitler took over Germany with his Nazi party group. What does propaganda mean? Propaganda is a way to spread rumors, info, or ideas to harm or help a group, person, movement, or nation. When the Nazi’s decided to start boycotting against the Jewish people they decided, "To quiet them down, we’re going to hit the Jews where it hurts – in their pocketbooks." which meant that they were going to vandalize, rob, destroy their shops, businesses.

This section will outline how, throughout history, the role of Women in Society that has been reflected in the role of Women in Sport.

Women sports have come a long way, since the days when women were only allowed

Society must begin to accept the variety of sports both men and women can compete in regardless of the

Over the years there has been several reasons why people argued the point of whether women should be allowed to participate in sports. Society used the excuse that women are weaker than men resulting in the conclusion that women could not handle the competitive atmosphere that playing a sport brings. Another reasoning was that past cultures and religion did not allow women to be involved in activities other than the normal womanly duties. This unjust nature of believing that women are less than men or that men are superior just because is not acceptable and should not be tolerated. As Sandra Coney says in an article, “New Zealand has been called a man’s country. Sporting contest have been a male proving ground and a source of identity and pride” (Coney). This quote proves that it is not just one area or one country where the male species is the higher of the two genders, it is a worldwide issue. Although some may think women should not be involved in sports, many disagree and believe that the involvement of women in sports can benefit society.

The system was one of the main and most important factors in the Australian sports during the 1990s. The Australian male teams competed in the international competition in cricket, football, soccer, olympics games and netball. However, despite the remarkable achievements the female teams earned in this decade. sports women struggled to achieve equality with men in many different areas such as fundings and media attention.

People might still say that the segregation of genders in sports are making gender equality impossible, but the separation of genders in sports is not because one gender is better than the other. It is to ensure the fairness and equality. Women and men are naturally built differently and they both are both truly strong but in different ways. In order to keep sports fair, just and equal, the best thing to do is to keep sports separated by

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.