Inequality in Sports Essay

when a member from the opposite gender participates in a “gender-specific sport”, it is considered deviant or unusual, such as is the case for female football players, female wrestlers, male cheerleaders, and male ballet performers. In the latter two cases, Meredith Worthen and Danielle Dirks explain in the text “Gender and Deviance” that these male athletes “destigmatize” their involvement in what are considered feminine sports by engaging in what are defined by Worthen and Dirks as “stigma…

Throughout the years, it has been apparent, the inequality within professional sports between men and women, specifically, the gap between salaries. While men are signing multi-million dollar contracts, women are receiving considerably lower salaries for the same sport compared to their biological counterparts. This has many people pondering the reason behind such a massive gap in salary. While they are both playing professional sports at an equally competitive level, the only difference seems…

whereas females are expected to be obedient, quiet, and attractive nurturers. Gender inequality, a unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender, is still a major conflict in today’s society but it is to a lesser extent than how it use to be. People are more accepting with the differences and the factors affecting gender roles, especially female athletes. They are starting to…

Gender inequality is a worldwide problem that has been going on for far too long. Imagine doing something that you love for a living but not being able support to yourself or your family. Pay inequality is an issue in many jobs, but is especially prevalent in the sports world. Generally, female athletes are paid much less than their male counterparts even though they play the same sport. In fact, most of the National Women’s Soccer League players live within the poverty line. The pay gap in…

wouldn’t be fair to the girls as boys have an advantage based on their biological genetics. The separation of men and women was installed and still done to this day by the adults of contemporary society. In Michael Messner’s, “Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism,” he conducted interviews with both female and male coaches who willingly admitted that they treat each gender differently on the playing field. A male coach will be rougher with the boys as they are…

there has been little effort by the public to promote respect and creditability in Women’s Sports. However, over the past decade the controversy around women’s sports and campaigns that support diversity or equality has brought women 's sports a long way since the early 1980s. As a male athlete, it’s hard for me to understand the scrutiny women went through while pursuing their love for athletics. Women were stereotyped by society and labeled as feminist and couldn 't be seen as an equal in the…

Inequality men and masculinities Cheerleading was a man sport in the 1800 because of all the gymnastics and it was as masculine as football the time. Women didn’t join cheerleading until men were sent to fight in world war II.In 1938 they tried pushing women back out but failed. The sport was thought to be about leadership but it changed toward sex appeal and support once women joined. This created male flight where men left cheerleading after women joined. Patriarchy is the control of female…

as weak and incapable “people believed to play sports one needed strength, endurance, and skill, all characteristics of men not women” (Carter, 2005), therefore should not participate in sports. “Women have few opportunities as professional athletes in comparison to the number of opportunities for men. Few professional women 's sports league have existed, and when they did, they were short-lived” (Syda, 1993). This essay will discuss gender inequality in professional basketball in the modern…

makers and those who work intimately with individuals, who are disadvantaged, have been othered or have othered. This research has confirmed yet expanded on gendered drug use and would be useful into researching strategies or practices which prevent inequalities in drug use. Having read this article I am surprised that females can be generally quite anxious about unrestrained drug use and prefer to have boundaries to follow. I believe this research should follow up on female’s preference of…

Women are again treated unfairly in sport. In 2009 only 4% of sports news was about women in their sport the other 96% was of men (Women's Sport Foundation, 2011). Earnings wise women are far behind on prize money, sponsorship and endorsements. In sport women’s abilities are looked as inferior to men due to coverage of news for women’s sport, matches, the general support and earnings. Professional sports women while on tour are forced having to fly commercial while men…