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article on increasing number of womens in sports

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Women in Sports


In the last one hundred years women have made tremendous inroads in many facets of life. Of that there can be little doubt. Women may now hold jobs, own property and participate in professional sports. Today women can compete in sports, once a vestige of male domination; there is now room for women in that arena. But even today women in sports are not portrayed in the same light as their male counterparts. To a large degree this is because of today's cultural ideal of women. 

Since the beginning of this century women like Babe Didrickson and Billy Jean King have brought female athletes into mainstream acceptance. In earlier times women had not only not been encouraged to be physical it was thought to be harmful for …show more content… 

During this century women have been able to break out of the traditional female mold. Women have broken the chains that bond them to the home and have emerged into all sorts of male dominated arenas, including sports. Women have become athletes in their own right. In the last ten years there has been validation for the female athlete. The WNBA was created giving women a professional league in a mainstream traditionally male sport for the first time since the All American Girls Professional Baseball League went out of existence in the 1950s. And recently a woman made the cut and participated on the professional golf circuit with the men. Today, we see women athletes in the media regularly. Women's college basketball is given airtime on weekends just as men's is

Answer 2

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Historical evidence proves that women have been involved in sports
since fourth century BC; but were not necessarily given the approval
to participate. Many restrictions were enforced to keep women out of
these male activities and were continually reinforced until the
twentieth century. Women entering the world of sports were aware that
they were placing themselves into a male dominated field. With their
entrance into the sporting world, these women have opened themselves
up to many different criticisms and to the possibility of exploitation
within the media and from male authority figures. Women in sports are
constantly striving for equality where hegemonic masculinity in.
One issue faced by female athletes in their chosen sport, is the
perception they lack physical capabilities and the issues surrounding
this myth. Before the 1920’s women were only allowed to participate
in sports that required little to no physical activity (Simri 40-48).
Women at a young age were taught that their bodies are physically
weaker than males. As a result, women would not use their bodies to
their full capability in fear of being socially ostracized or causing
bodily harm to themselves. Thus, perpetuating the false notion that
they were inherently weaker than male athletes. These ideas of female
frailty emerged during the beginning of the twentieth century and are
only now being proven wrong. Physicians and physical therapists have
proven that there is very little difference in physical ability
between female and male athletes given equal training. Many women
have begun to realize their natural abilities and have started to take
part in more physical demanding sports. However, there is still the
lingering impression that women cannot produce the aggression that
certain sports require. This notion is popular among women as well as
men (Dowling).

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