Female Interest In Sport Journal Analysis

The journal article examines how female interest in sport is incepted in a male dominated part of society. The lectures state that currently today, women's sports are still not promoted as mass sports. They are paid less and given less attention then the higher profile male athletes. Although they are seen as inferiors in the sporting world, women are on equal levels as men when given the fair amount of time and resources. The women involved in the study offer a challenge to the masculine understanding of performance-oriented sports. Weight training is typically a male dominated activity although women still participate. Women interest in an activity is not created through consumption in television and arena. The most prominent way that women gain interest is through participation (Antunovic & Hardin, 2013). In the weight training courses, women are not the majority. This may be because of a lack …show more content…
The best way to gain interest for women is to participate. Weight training courses are not heavily populated by women possibly because of social stigmas. The way to beat these social stigmas and empower women in the weight training scene is to participate. Women involved in the study complicated dominant ideologies about the role of sport as many of them considered participation and competition as a site for building connections and empowering other women (Antunovic & Hardin, 2013). Sports in the United States have been conceptualized as a male dominant part of society. Women in this area of society, especially as athletes and fans, often remain invisible. To better understand female fandom, the journal observed online spaces where women gathered to talk about sports (Antunovic & Hardin, 2013). Unlike many of the male bloggers studied, the women bloggers actively stated that they were