Women are Different from Men

As an adolescent, I was very interested in sports. In fact, sports were all around me. I was usually the tallest of my friends, therefore I was faced with more opportunities concerning sports. The main sports I played were basketball and softball. At this point in my life, I did not know about Title IX and all of its rules and regulations concerning women in sports; I was just interested because sports were fun for me.

Traditionally women were viewed as equipped to participate in sports, and their involvement was viewed as unfeminine and undesirable. This Article Examples the women were viewed as unfeminine to the sports that men play and undesirable. Young girls who are given an early opportunity to participate in sports may be more prepared for the male in classrooms. Even though women have often been relegated to second-hand citizenship in the same socializing, integration, statues, and recognition that benefit male athletes. (By; Sandra L. Hanson)

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

Our gender has an effect on every aspect of our lives, varying from how we view ourselves and other people to how we interact in social and civic life. It also impacts the way we set our goals in opportunity areas such as education, work, and recreation. Gender socialization starts at birth then manifests through family, education, peer groups, and mass media. Gender norms are automatically placed on us, where women should learn how to be nurturing, sensitive, emotional, passive, and always hold a man’s position higher than hers. On the other hand men should be overly confident, aggressive, dominant, and view women beneath them. This paper uses various readings to show how these gender norms are supported and challenged in today’s society.

This year BCA 210 classes were surveyed and 121 students successfully completed the questionnaire. More than 50 percent of the students were male (69 students) and 42.1 percent were female (51 students) with only one student did not report their gender. About half the students that filled out the survey were freshmen (68 students) while 23.9 percent are sophomore (29 students), 14.8 percent were juniors (18 students) and 4.9 percent seniors (6 students). Most of the students, 71.9 percent, were pursuing a BCA major (87 students) while only 13.2 percent were pursing BCA minor. The other remaining students had either another degree focus or they were undecided, both at 7.4 percent, nine students each. By using the survey instrument for

Society’s understanding of gender roles debate about gender equity and have always been connected to the social roles that men and women we assigned to shape Americans views of education for girls and boys. What has also been affected is race and social class between females and males who attend schools. Ideas of what women and men are suppose to be and do have cut across different classifications. Ending unfairness in schools has rested on change to gender roles mainly women.

The main form of competition for women largely consisted of intramurals hosted by their university. In 1966, the DGWS appointed a Commission on Intercollegiate Sports for Women (CISW) to assist in conducting intercollegiate competitions. In 1967, it was renamed the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW). (Bell, History Prior to Title IX). The C.I.A.W. was the first main governing body established for women’s intercollegiate athletics. With the establishment of this governing body, for the first time, women have the opportunity to compete against other universities instead of the members of their own school. The main problem that many women’s programs struggled with was funding for the expenses of their team. Majority of the athletic revenue went to men’s sports with football taking the majority of the revenue. This all plays into the Civil Rights movement our country was experiencing at the

“In the earliest generation of sports it was clear that men’s were much more developed and produced than women’s. Now to this day, the overwhelming difference of the two gender’s sports is significantly exposed. If the media were to equalize women’s sports to men’s then it would decrease the ratings, but the house should force the media to display, promote, and report women’s sports equally to men’s sports because increased media would essentially expand the fund for women’s sports and it would create role models for young women to get engaged in a sport.

When thinking of gender roles in society, stereotypes generally come to mind. Throughout history these stereotypes have only proven to be true. Major historical events have had a huge impact on the way men and women are seen and treated. In this way, women have always been secondary to males and seen as the fragile counterparts whose job is to take care of the household and most importantly, be loyal to her husband no matter the circumstance. Gender roles throughout history have greatly influenced society. The slow progress of woman’s rights throughout humanities led to an explosion of woman’s rights throughout the 20th century and that trend will only continue on into the rest of the 21st century.

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

This led to the formation of organizations like the national committee on Women’s Sports, to provide rules and standards for athletic participation for women and girls. The AAU, Amateur Athletic Union, which was under the control of men, took control over women’s athletics. This stirred up conflict amongst physical educators and other leaders like, Lou Henry Hoover, Blanche Thrilling, and Agnes Wayman who opposed the AAU control and wanted women to govern the organization not men. They were against it because “ only women could understand the psychological, motivational, and physiological need for women.” (Costa & Guthrie, 91)

“Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls”, says Aaron Devor. Women and men have always been seen as totally different people, but is it right to say that women are different from men. Many research findings support these gender differences. The range of critical response to the topic of the gender is clearly discussed in the reviews written by Aaron Devor “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes,” Deborah Blum “The Gender Blur,” and Mariah Burton Nelson in “I Won. I’m Sorry”. Marian Burton Nelson, a former Stanford University and professional basketball player and author of sit book on gender identity. Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Aaron Derov, a sociology professor at University of Victoria. All three articles have similar and different opinions, but they are all about gender differences. While Devor and Blum talk about the origin of gender differences in men and women, Nelson focuses more on strong women; all three articles focus their discussions on aggressiveness, gender behaviors, and male domination.

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

“I would like to sketch briefly how childhood conflicts may affect the relationship to the opposite sex in later life. Let us take an example a typical situation: The little girl who was badly hurt through some great disappointment by her father, will transform her innate instinctual wish to receive from the man, into a vindication one of taking from him by force.” (Paragraph 10 Page 342-343). Karen Horney would give a lecture titled The Distrust Between the Sexes. This is basically about how men and women are different. She gives many reasons as to how they are, but the top ones are physically, hostility, emotionally, with attitude, intellectually, and with childhood conflicts. She was born in 1885 and died in 1952. Suzanne Raitt writes, “In 1922, at a panel over which Sigmund Freud presided during a meeting of the Psychoanalytic Congress, a young Berlin-trained psychoanalyst delivered a paper that began one of the fiercest and longest debates in psychoanalytic theory. The analyst--the first woman ever to deliver a paper on feminine psychology at an international psychoanalytic meeting--was Karen Horney, and the paper, "On the Genesis of the Castration Complex in Women," was her famous response to the claim of her own psychoanalyst, Karl Abraham, that all women unconsciously envy the penis and want to be men. As she gave her paper, Horney was nervous but respectful. She carefully

For this ethnographic paper, I have chosen to interview three female friends currently at college in different countries. I intentionally chose these three girls because they completely fit in the category that many societies have about feminism. The three girls are from France, United States, and Angola. My idea was to have ideas about gender coming from not only different countries, but different continents. Based on what I read in the textbook, and what we have discussed in class, gender is the idea that different societies create about feminism and masculinity based on the performance from both sexes. The problem of gender inequality is not recent, but something that many societies have been trying to fix for a long time. As soon I asked about their experience with gender, they all answered the same thing. The three girls answered what I was really expecting, that if you are a boy you do things like play sports, work out every week, and so on. This answer led me to the conclusion that stereotypes about gender performance are popular among almost every societies. I asked this question as way to get a little background about gender in different countries, but I have noticed that their ideas were very similar. Nowadays, in college environment there are a lot of stereotypes and discrimination against female based on the role that they play in society, and I decided to analyze it closely in order to see how it can affect female’s performance. Stereotypes about female’s role