Women's Tennis Association

university had the option of eliminating a few sports for men. As a result, the university eliminated the men's soccer, wrestling and tennis teams, effective at the end of the 1999 spring semester (Challenge 2002)." On November 18, 1999, the plaintiffs filed a complaint against the defendants, claming that the defendants' elimination of the men's wrestling, tennis and soccer programs at Miami University, a state university of the State of Ohio and a recipient of federal funds, constituted gender

“You throw like a girl:” The effect of stereotype threat on women’s athletic performance and gender stereotypes Kimberly Hively, Amani El-Alayli This study looks at the effect that a stereotypic threat has on group’s performance. A stereotype threat is a phenomenon that occurs when a specific group’s performance is lowered due to negative performance expectations that are placed on that group (Steele, 1997). This phenomenon is most commonly seen in female sports, when women are told that they may

Women had no rights in the 1800 hundreds. The hierarchy in the United States of America back then was rich white men, poor white men, white women, black men and black women. During those time women were uneducated and as a result had to take care of the house chores such as cleaning, cooking, going grocery shopping and lots more. Today women has the opportunity to become whomever they aspire to be, they are liberated and educated. As a result they are able to fill positions such as doctors, lawyers

individual sports like ice skating and tennis are heavily broadcasted but the majority are female players. The lack of coverage in female team sports is due to

if they can do that we can definitely play a sport. Still women would not let men keep them down, in the 1800’s and the 1900’s women started to form informal athletic clubs; which help states like new york and new Orleans get popular sports like tennis, croquet bowling and archery. Even though they were forming groups they did not have any women clubs of their own. But, some men’s clubs actually let women participate in their clubs, but would not let them have full membership. Also, to all the

experience delineated in the case history concerns the signing of Australian women's tennis player JG with management and marketing firm ITMS with the intention that the latter would help secure marketing and sponsorship opportunities for the former. As JG continued to perform well in her responsibilities as a rising tennis star elevating her rank and achieving a relatively singular status in the field of Australian women's tennis her management firm failed to capitalize on the opportunities newly available

Serena Williams, an American known Tennis player was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. Born to Richard and Oracene Williams, the youngest out of five daughters; Serena and her sister Venus would grow to become one of Tennis greatest champions. Her father whom was a former share cropper from Louisiana moved his family to Compton, California although there was much gang violence and drug lords but it was no accident. Richard Williams wanted his two youngest daughters to be successful

Act in 1963. Yet 35 years later statistics show America's working woman still only earns 74 cents for every dollar that her male coworker earns.” That’s not equal pay. From the Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 and women’s foundation many sport associations have opened their arms to the women generation. If women are able to change the ways of how sports are being played by adding their involvement then without a doubt the amount of pay will soon change

As the article reveals the immense pay gap women are receiving compared to men when they achieve similar accomplishments. “Women players at Wimbledon, women's tennis has problems winning big sponsors. Golfer Juli Inkster won her sport's career grand slam last month, winning the Ladies Professional Golf Association Championship. She got $210,000. The same weekend, the Buick Classic paid its male winner $450,000” (Christian Science Monitor, 1999). As one can clearly infer women have

surprisingly has a history. William G. Morgan created the sport in 1895. He was an instructor for the YWCA which stands for Young Men’s Christians Associations. Morgan created volleyball for people who preferred a sport that had less physical contact than basketball. Morgan was able to take aspects from various sports such as basketball, baseball, tennis and handball and create a new fun sport that everyone enjoyed.