Gender Stereotypes In Baseball

One thing I would like to point out is that I’m not a big fan of baseball or sports in general. Which is weird because I actually liked this movie a lot on how these women went from housewives from cleaning to cooking to baseball. A sport where most would think the last place you would see a woman. In those days women were looked at as caretakers and would do what everything around the house. I’m not saying all of them did that, but at that time when their husbands went off to war to fight for their country baseball was dwindling.
Since there wasn’t any entertainment in baseball there was a candy manufacturer by the name of Walter Harvey who started an all women's baseball league. This league was called the All-American Girls Professional …show more content…
First, being on how much the women were going to get paid, there was always a pay gap but I’m sure the men didn’t get paid a thousand a week like the women did. Another thing to point out is that even in today's sports female athletes don’t get nearly the amount men do even if they do the same thing. Secondly, when the women were starting to play they had to wear skirts which kind of looked like vintage nurse uniforms. The person who chose these uniforms was trying to get some sort of sex appeal from these uniforms and their players. They did this so they would probably get a bigger male audience when watching the girls run. I guess what they were thinking is that the “sex sells” type of mindset when making their uniforms.
I believe that the league should not have been disbanded once the men returned home, because since it got big they should of kept it. It is unfortunate that it did eventually disband and that no one really cares about female sports in general anymore. It is just something that is just on tv nowadays, it is something that for some reason many people don’t want to see a woman play sports. I am not saying that people don’t but a majority would rather watch men’s basketball opposed to women’s