A League Of Their Own Gender Roles Essay

In the film, A League of Their Own, women in the time period are called upon and given the role to entertain the rest of America by playing the traditionally male sport or baseball. This film puts women in a powerful place for the 1940s. They are taking over men’s jobs: at home, in the work place and now in the entertainment industry. America finally has established the need for women in society now that they are out of men’s shadows. Although the need for women is greatly recognized in the film, this film also highlights the gender roles women are stuck in in day-to-day life and more importantly the roles they are stuck in when it comes to leadership.
The conflict of this film is quickly portrayed in the beginning when the recruiter is looking to find women to create a baseball team. In my eyes he is the first role of leadership the audience encounters. He holds the power to select which women, if any, that will be chosen to try out for the all women’s baseball league. Here we see the typically gender role that women are supposed to fill by being lady like, pretty and graceful. The …show more content…
I think that this title fits well for multiple reasons. The first reason is the most obvious because women are creating their own league to compete against a traditionally male sport. They are coming together to beat the male stigma surrounding baseball. Another reason I think that it is fitting is because it’s not only a baseball league it is a leadership league. They are all rising up and becoming leaders in their own little ways not just Dottie. Kit actually decides to be her own person and stay in the league to make her own self happy and versus doing what her family wants and staying on the farm. I think these women are making a new league in society showing they are capable of doing things that men are typically “known for.” They proved that they are an important aspect of society that deserves