Discrimination In Sports

Many scholars have argued that there is sex discrimination that still exist when it comes to sports even though Title IX exist (Kane 2010; Nyad et al. 2015; Cooky et al. 2015). The battle of equality in sports has been a long drawn out process. When it comes to women in sports they are not on the same equal level of a playing field as men. In sports women are underpaid, have a lack of media attention, sexualized, and lack of opportunities in other sports. Many individuals would argue that women are a threat to a man’s masculinity in sports. In addition, they do not have the ability and skills set to be seen as equals in sports. While, female participate in sports increase, it still remains that the media has limited the broadcasting of women sports. Instead of showing a woman athletic abilities and giving hope to many young girls across the world the media only portray women in sports as being nonexistence or average players. Multiply scholars have argued that when it come to women in sports they are devalued (Nyad et al.2015). …show more content…
Sports broadcasting shows that sports is still a male dominated arena. There has been a lack of progress in order to increase women representation in sports on television. In addition, the pay gap between women and men sports is still a working progress. Just recently, women have started to have the opportunity to be referees or even coaching at a high level in sports. However, they are still limited and underrepresented in those opportunities. This literature review is to show how women participating in sports was suppose to change the game; however, it just showed how underprivileged women are when it comes to