Being female has affected my life in many ways, both positive and negative. However, when I compare them the negatives outweigh the positives. Almost all the negatives on my list seem to lead to double standards. A double standard defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary is “a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another; especially a code of morals that applies more severe standards of sexual behaviour to women
in sports have always had the short end of the stick. Women at one point and time didn't even have rights in the United States of America and fighting of their rights in 1848 was the first step in being equal to men “The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York(Eddison, C. 2012).” Since then women have been competing with men to have