Are there equal opportunities provided for women and girls to play and compete in sports? How are women and girls being looked at and treated? Every day, we see scenarios of inequality between women and men in sports. Fortunately, there has been a vast improvement in the role in which women play in sport from up to 40 years ago till now. There has been change in media outlets, governing bodies and especially female athletes around the world, whether Caucasian or African. Although a lot of discrimination against women was involved, there were female athletes that proved that despite the circumstances, they are able to become successful. Before the Title IX came into law in 1972, women won’t allowed to participate in sports in schools in the
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They were not any sports for women to be involved in but only male dominated. At one time it was believed that women were not able to compete in long distance running. They justified that if they run too long, their uterus would fall out causing them to not be capable of reproducing children. These notions came about because one doctor from Berlin, wrote in a book “violent movements of the body can cause a shift in the position and a loosening of the uterus as well as prolapse and bleeding, with resulting sterility, thus defeating a woman’s true purpose in life, i.e., the bringing forth of strong …show more content…
In their works, Woolum (1998) and Sherrow (1996) trace this pattern and highlight how sports have over time evolved for women. They point out that for centuries, competition, strength, and team sportsmanship have been deemed appropriate traits within the “masculine domain”. As a result, many girls and women avoided taking part in sports. It was not until the mid 1800’s that women began to accompany their male relatives to specific sporting events such as horse races and baseball games and participate in exercise such as dancing and
They were not any sports for women to be involved in but only male dominated. At one time it was believed that women were not able to compete in long distance running. They justified that if they run too long, their uterus would fall out causing them to not be capable of reproducing children. These notions came about because one doctor from Berlin, wrote in a book “violent movements of the body can cause a shift in the position and a loosening of the uterus as well as prolapse and bleeding, with resulting sterility, thus defeating a woman’s true purpose in life, i.e., the bringing forth of strong …show more content…
In their works, Woolum (1998) and Sherrow (1996) trace this pattern and highlight how sports have over time evolved for women. They point out that for centuries, competition, strength, and team sportsmanship have been deemed appropriate traits within the “masculine domain”. As a result, many girls and women avoided taking part in sports. It was not until the mid 1800’s that women began to accompany their male relatives to specific sporting events such as horse races and baseball games and participate in exercise such as dancing and