Women's sports

Women’s Sports Matter Women’s athletes are just as if not more talented than male athletes. Even with sports scholarships women receive fewer than men. In Laura Santhanam’s article she supports this claim, such as “the women earned less than the men while performing demonstrably better” (Santhanam, 2016). The United States women’s soccer team have won three world cups, but the men haven’t even went past the quarterfinals (Santhanam, 2016). Women’s sports need to have more media coverage to break

men play sports rather than women. But people occasionally do watch women's sports if the sport involves women wearing revealing clothing and the players is extremely attractive. There is only a small amount of viewers who would not only acknowledge the female player’s appearance, but also their skills. However, men’s sports are more televised than women’s Also women are treated differently physically and mentally. Women’s sports are underreported and underrepresented in television sports news. In

Women’s Sport Coverage is Decreasing “We are the best in the world, have three World Cup championships, four Olympic championships, and the men get paid more to just show up compared to how much we get paid to win major championships,” says Hope Solo (American Goalkeeper). In the 1920’s the issue of broadcasting, promoting, and displaying women’s sport equal to men was brought about. Gertrude Ederle, a competitive american swimmer in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel, while

The Results of Title IX on Women's Sports Over two decades have passed since the enactment of Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, including athletics. As a result of Title IX, women and girls have benefited from more athletic participation opportunities and more equitable facilities. Because of Title IX, more women have received athletic scholarships and thus opportunities for higher education that some may not have been able to afford otherwise

Women’s sports are also shown to be less significant in popular TV shows such as South Park, which the viewer base age is from 18-38 year old males.4 In one of South Park’s newest episodes showing one of the main characters giving their opinion on Women’s volleyball. Stanley gives his sarcastic comment on girls’ volleyball: “Dude, girls’ volleyball isn’t a joke. Jokes are hard and require skill.” This comment is obviously suggesting that girls’ volleyball ‘isn’t hard and doesn’t require skill’ given

quote from Yousafzai basically describes women's oppression. In sports, women are held back because they do not have the same opportunities. Women have been oppressed throughout the history of sports. There are many ways in which female athletes have been oppressed. Some examples are in the Olympics, in schools, in other countries, in the U.S, the comparison of male athletes to female and many more. Based on records, documentaries, articles, etc. of women’s sports, it is evident that female athletes are

Athletics is a profession dominated by men. Although there are many women athletes, none of them are as recognized as Kobe Bryant or Babe Ruth. The Women's Sport Report website shows different images of women winning trophies and competing in tight fitting clothing. Mariah Burton Nelson writes an article expressing the contrast in expectations for men and women in athletics. Men are encouraged to become competitive and aggressive in order to become professional athletes. On the other hand, if women

This act was supposed to stop situations such as unfair media attention, but has it helped? According to the article Media Coverage of Women's Sport: A New Look at an Old Problem, “There is evidence that these injustices are not diminishing over time, as Duncan and Messner (2000), in their longitudinal analysis, found the amount and type of coverage of women's sport in broadcast media has not changed since 1989” (Cunningham 44). The problem of inequality within media has been a problem for years and

As the numbers grow in female athletes it seems to be a decrease in media coverage all women’s sports get about 4% of media coverage on television, which isn’t a lot because of that 4% split between all levels of sport in female athletics. which isn’t the case for the men sports some men sport have their own channels that, for example, NFL Network is a channel where every

increasing womens sports at all levels and even decreasing mens sports at mainly the collegiate level. In this paper I will discuss the ways that it has a positive and negative effects as well as how it should be re-evaluated and how social levels and demographics effect