Fanny Rosenfeld Influence On Women

Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld was at the forefront of women’s athletics throughout most of the twentieth century, and had great success in the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties. Rosenfeld, originally born in Ukraine, immigrated to Canada with her family in hopes of developing a better life. Rosenfeld lived a life devoted to sport, vividly portrayed through her recognized excellence and passion for a vast array of sports. Throughout her athletic career, she competed in tennis, softball, basketball, and hockey. However, Rosenfeld found her greatest successes in multiple track and field events. As a result of her continued devoutness to sport, in 1950, Rosenfeld was selected as the honourable recipient of Canada’s women athlete of the half-century. Rosenfeld has …show more content…
In addition to her position on women in the workplace, she noted that a woman who participates in sport is no less of a woman in comparison to the traditional definition of a woman.12 Not only did she verbalize her position, but lead by example as a career woman in athletics. The transition from women working in the house, to working in the community was encouraged by Fanny for many years and was revolutionary in empowering females to become more independent, contributing members of …show more content…
Throughout her career as a female athlete, Fanny was able to reduce the stereotype surrounding females as subordinates in the sporting community, abolish gender and ethnic constraints females faced when attempting to participate in sport and empowered females to participate in athletics by providing them with a successful role model. Her devotion to the development of female sport demonstrates how she is the epitome of a true Canadian sport