Stereotyping In Women's Sports

For many years people have made preconceived ideas about society, judgment in a huge factor that corrupts the world. Without getting to know a person’s personality, qualities or skill society makes unfair statements based on appearance, stereotyping. This is a common factor that comes with playing sports, people are judged daily. Many people in our nation have stereotype sports, they believe that women should not play football or men should not dance based on gender. People believe that women are too weak and frail. Women’s sports were underreported and underrepresented in the six weeks of television sports news sampled in the study. Men’s sports received 92% of the air time, women’s sports 5%, and gender neutral topics 3%. A stereotype many people have about men is that men are too big and slow. …show more content…
"The objective of all physical activities is not to make champions, but to make a contribution to building a harmonious society". Hermann Brandt If teams are mixed from a young age kids will not know the difference and having a mixed team will be common. An example of stereotyping in sports is Jackie Mitchell, she was a professional baseball player in 1931. She signed with an all male team and, had the opportunity to play the Yankees where, she strike out one of the best players of all time Babe Ruth. With no reasoning Jackie was pulled from the game, days later she found out that the reasoning was because the commissioner of baseball decided it was too strenuous for a woman. Jackie wasn’t allowed to play simply because of her gender not because of her abilities. This is why the idea to men and women cannot be on teams needs to be ended, by having the two genders work together at a young age they are equals and the stereotype will be in the