Did you know that it was not until the late 1960’s that women professional athletes were recognised, or even started earning money for the sport they played. Many years ago, it was rare seeing a female playing a sport at high level. Nowadays female athletes are much stronger, faster, and more powerful compared to back then. Female athletes have gotten the attention slowly but steadily and have been growing in popularity as the years go by. I will be talking about professional athletes and bringing up Title IX as it shows us how female discrimination starts so early in a females athletic journey. In the professional athlete world, female athletes are not treated equally due to discriminations compared to male athletes and they should have a
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In the article, “Why people don’t watch women sports?” mentions that girls and women athletes in all levels only receive 4% of all sports coverage and less than 1% in all TV coverage(Ottaway). If you look from a viewer's perspective you want to see faster paced and with more physical abilities as thats why men athletes playing the same sport compared to women athletes feel more entertaining. Ottaways interviews a professional hockey player, Kaleigh Fratkin where she says “Women’s hockey is largely ignored by the mainstream sports media, and fans don’t have any “weird sort of telepathy” that tells them the sport exists”. That is the reason that media is giving more coverage towards men athletes, media could do a better job in representing female athletes as women sports slowly and steadily progressing. For example, USA women national soccer team won the FIFA women's world cup. In the article, “A sporting difference: On Men’s and Women’s Athletics” by Yenor mentions that The NCAA tournament attendance average for women was 5,708, while the men’s tournament averaged 20,550 per session. It must be a more average attendance for basketball teams during the month of march as it is March Madness, which is the biggest male college basketball tournament around the country. There is no such event like that for women which is on media coverage that people know about and I think that is totally …show more content…
In colleges there are less women sports compared to men where they get less choices to choose from meaning receiving less funds towards scholarships for women. Even in the professional world, women athletes don’t have that many recognised sports for womens to choose for. For example there is no recognised basketball, nascar, or in any other sports athlete that the general public knows about. Even after retirement females don’t get enough opportunities. In the article, “Women's athletics a battle for respect” Wrenn interviews Joyner Kersee as she says, “It's probably the most sex-segregated industry out there. The industry of coaching men. It's less than 2%." This means that female athletes have less opportunities to do something in the sport they played compared to men as these days most of the coaches are
In the article, “Why people don’t watch women sports?” mentions that girls and women athletes in all levels only receive 4% of all sports coverage and less than 1% in all TV coverage(Ottaway). If you look from a viewer's perspective you want to see faster paced and with more physical abilities as thats why men athletes playing the same sport compared to women athletes feel more entertaining. Ottaways interviews a professional hockey player, Kaleigh Fratkin where she says “Women’s hockey is largely ignored by the mainstream sports media, and fans don’t have any “weird sort of telepathy” that tells them the sport exists”. That is the reason that media is giving more coverage towards men athletes, media could do a better job in representing female athletes as women sports slowly and steadily progressing. For example, USA women national soccer team won the FIFA women's world cup. In the article, “A sporting difference: On Men’s and Women’s Athletics” by Yenor mentions that The NCAA tournament attendance average for women was 5,708, while the men’s tournament averaged 20,550 per session. It must be a more average attendance for basketball teams during the month of march as it is March Madness, which is the biggest male college basketball tournament around the country. There is no such event like that for women which is on media coverage that people know about and I think that is totally …show more content…
In colleges there are less women sports compared to men where they get less choices to choose from meaning receiving less funds towards scholarships for women. Even in the professional world, women athletes don’t have that many recognised sports for womens to choose for. For example there is no recognised basketball, nascar, or in any other sports athlete that the general public knows about. Even after retirement females don’t get enough opportunities. In the article, “Women's athletics a battle for respect” Wrenn interviews Joyner Kersee as she says, “It's probably the most sex-segregated industry out there. The industry of coaching men. It's less than 2%." This means that female athletes have less opportunities to do something in the sport they played compared to men as these days most of the coaches are