The Role Of Women In Sports

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.

Society has largely ignored and discriminated against female athletes. For a long time society portrayed female athletes as masculine, butch, and homosexual which has influenced the amount of women that choose to participate and excel in athletics. After noticing these problems, feminists attempted to reverse these trends and produce better opportunities for female athletes. By advocating for equal rights as well as pushing for legislation, they enabled women to use sports to improve their health, create new identities, and venture into male-dominated areas (Prakash, 1990). Because of this, Title IX was introduced to the world of sport. Title IX states that 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 education program

Women in sports, over the past 100 years, has become a topic of intense interest in society. Men have long argued that women have no right to play in the same arena as men do while on the flip side, women argued that they possess the right to the same physical activities that men enjoy. Women participation in sports, up until that time, had been frowned upon universally. Women were eventually granted the right to play sports in the collegiate setting however there was no equality to the treatment within the athlete’s school and no treatment outside of it either (History 1). Until title IX was passed, women’s collegiate athletics were given no scholarships to award to exceptional high school athletes and those programs were given very little budget to fund their programs (Ibid 1). As a result of these shortcomings, in 1972 only 30,000 participated in athletics as opposed to the 170,000 men who participated in athletics (Ibid 1). Title IX was designed to correct those imbalances within athletics. Since then people have formed their own mixed responses about the success of Title IX, both good and bad. While there are both good and bad beliefs concerning Title IX the overall consensus is that Title IX, by and large, was needed and vastly improved the state of women’s athletics.

To begin with, women experience a great deal of inequality in the sport/athletic department. Many female sports are not equally recognized as a much as male sports. An example of this can be shown in baseball and softball. Baseball is a known sport that is popular all over the world that is always being aired on TV. Softball, on the hand, is left in the

December 11th,1995 was a much different time compared to today. After deciding to explore the New York Times sports archives I discovered that articles have drastically changed over twenty years. It was extremely surprising when comparing the number of articles written daily in 1995 in relation to how many are written on a daily basis today. Twenty-one stories were covered on December 11th twenty years ago compared to the astonishing 155 written on December 11th, 2014. Out of the twenty-one stories not one had any reference to females within any sport; all twenty-one of the articles were directed toward male professional sport. The majority of the articles were tailored towards Football, Basketball and Baseball, all mainstream sports. The

Sports have evolved significantly over the course of time. It has transitioned from being centered predominantly on the male athletes; and has now incorporated equal treatment towards female athletes. This transitioning did not occur over night, and it did not come easily to women who are involved in athletics. For every level of sports for women, the inequality and unfair treatment that they received was unjust and very much so unfair. Yet for many people outside of the athletic arena little to nothing was known about the harsh treatment or lack thereof that women received in athletics. Until Title IX brought these issues out, most women in athletics went on unnoticed or not having the ability to achieve their maximum potential because

Women are behind in the sports industry because they lack opportunity. Sports are created by men and for men, the leading gender in the sports industry is male. Take a look at any professional team whether it is baseball, hockey, basketball, football, even darts; all these events are male dominated and there are no associations remotely equivalent for women’s sports. Women have never been able to compete or try out for such leagues; NHL, CFL, MLB, NBA etc. I once heard of a woman who played a game in the NHL, so I decided to research her, Manon Rhéaume is her name, the first ever woman to appear in an NHL game. On Sept. 23, 1992 Rhéaume goal tended in a pre-season game for the Tampa Bay Lightning against the St. Louis Blues (Campbell, 2015).

The sports industry is growing and with more and more minorities going the sports route in majoring in sport management, sport marketing, sport broadcast journalism, etc. there needs to be more positions filled by minorities. Frisby (2005) notes, With our focus on organizations and managerial activities, sport management scholars are well positioned to question how structures and practices related to policy development, marketing, the media and technology, accounting, human resource management, and so on perpetuate and contribute to the bad and ugly sides of sport. As mentioned people who go through sport programs are well over qualified to fill the position so there needs to be more research into why these positions aren’t filled by overqualified

Discrimination against females is not a new concept in the athletic world, but it’s definitely disappointing when we are in an era of change. Sadly, the media seems to be the only thing powerful enough to refine the idea of women in sports and lately it hasn’t been doing a good job. Conducting a quick online search, I compared Sports Illustrated covers between men and women and the results weren’t surprising. Women were sexually exploited while men were in their uniform playing their sport. I also searched for the latest sports news on ESPN’s website. The only section referring to women’s sport was “Women’s College Basketball” and only had two articles. Looking at Women’s Sport Report, I was honestly flabbergasted at the images and articles

Why do female athletes receive less media coverage than male athletes? Male athletes dominate professional sport that airs on television. The media easily overlooks female athletes except during occasion like the Winter Olympics. The articles Media Coverage of Women’s Sports is Important (Lopiano, 2008) and Take Back the Sports Page? (Sommers, 2010) acknowledge factors that determine the amount of media coverage female athletes receive. [Lopiano and Sommers address this issue in regards to media coverage on female athletes differently. Lopiano focuses on the general message the media broadcasts and Sommers uses statistics to show the difference between female and male media. Lopiano and Sommers agree that the media considers female sports

Over the last twenty years the respect for female athletes has increased but why is it not shown in the media coverage? Mass media has become one of the most powerful institutional forces that communicated information and helps shape the values that are apart of the modern culture. Media coverage of sports is one of the most popular news coverage, having many television stations, articles, magazines and news reports. The media coverage of sports is primarily a male-dominated institution that lacks coverage and representation of women. The relation of women in sports points out main issues that are the amount of coverage that they receive and how they are represented as athletes.

Gender inequality has always been an issue for women in athletics. The Title IX bill took a long time to come into effect, but when it did, it wasn’t seriously followed. Many high schools had an unequal distribution of school funds for athletic facilities. Some high schools’ girls’ locker rooms had “nearly half the size of the men’s locker rooms”, if they had locker rooms at all (Bellford). Examples like this show how the bill helped women get more opportunities, but it still didn’t give them the same opportunities as men. The problem of equality of genders has always been an issue in America, after the Title IX bill got passed things got better for women and they were able to do what they wanted to do, but there was still a lot of room for improvement. The general preconceptions about

Sportsmen receive more money than sportswomen in 30% of sports. This has become a hotly debated topic, with some arguing professional sportsmen and sportswomen should receive an equal amount of money, and others arguing sportswomen do not deserve to be paid equally. Should women in sport receive equal pay to their male counterparts?

This podcast will distinguish the stiffening number of the lack of equal pay, rights and opportunity for women involved with sports. This topic was selected because this is evident based on the staggering numbers of women performing and displaying either equal or more in terms of success, achievement or work load and still are behind when comparing salaries between men and women. Hopefully, this podcast will shine some light on this subject and bring awareness. Based on prior research conducted the numbers are comparing the USA women 's soccer. It is safe to say these figures and statistics show similar disparities in all sports with both women and men. Educating the readers, and providing basic knowledge and understanding in regards

Women. Men. They are both a unique and special being that is on earth. In a perfect society, men and women would have the same physical strength and they would be completely equal. The idea of women and men being able to play against each other is wonderful but realistically it might not work out as great. Of course, women can do anything men can do, but in a competitive situation like this, the results of this change could bring forth more negative impacts than positive ones. In professional sports, women and men should be kept separate due to being biologically different and because of the possibility of the quality of the performances in the sports decreasing.