Who You Callin A Lady Summary

Continuing to brain wash the young men today with the “sports is a mans world” mentality only helps to repeat the cycle of nearly oppressing women in the industry. It keeps men feeling secure when it comes to their masculinity, yet making a woman’s fight for respect a never ending struggle.

In sports women aren't taken seriously because they are always getting criticized and it’s time for change. Men are always chastising women on how they can’t play sports or talk about them. In the essay “Sexism and Sports”, Molly Quinton persuades that women shouldn’t be blamed in sports. Quinton uses the rhetorical choice of narration in this text.

On television it may seem that women athletes are treated the same like the males, but there is more than just what we see. Women receive no encouragement to participate in sports, and neither are they receiving a sufficient amount of support or getting enough attention from the media. However, it is unfair when females participate in a particular sport and are referred to as the “sexy competition”

"Gender Oppression Involving Men's and Women's Sports." : Analysis of a Scholarly Source: Equal Pay? Not on the Basketball Court" by David Woods. N.p., 28 Oct. 2014. Web. 28 Oct. 2015. .

Within the documentary “Not Just a Game”, Dave Zirin analyzes how American sports have been at the front and center of some of the most major political issues of our time. While many people believe that “sports and politics don’t mix”, there have been numerous instances in which sporting games and events have been overshadowed by acts of militarism, racism and homophobia. While each of these issues are extremely important and deserve a discussion of their own, one of the most notable instances of prejudice and disparity in sport is found today in women’s sports.

In the Journal “Sport and Society: Annual Review of Sociology” written by Robert E. Washington and David Karen they talk about gender and sports in one section of their Journal. In this section the author addresses masculinity in sports and the attempts of Title IX to try and make sports equal in the sense that if women make up 40% of the athlete population they should receive 40% of the resources. However, this is not the case “The most recent data (Suggs 2000) reveal that in 1998–1999 women made up 42% of Division I athletes, received 42% of scholarship monies, 31% of recruiting budgets, 34% of coaching-salary budgets, and 33% of total operating expenses. According to Andrew Zimbalist (2000:B9), women “still play in inferior facilities, stay in lower-caliber hotels on the road, eat in cheaper restaurants, benefit from smaller promotional budgets, and have fewer assistant coaches.” (Washington and Karen, 2001) This long quote showcases that although women are starting to get what they deserve when it comes to a the percentage of Athletics that they comprise it is still not up to par. Although it is not technically salary, the gap in scholarship money and money spent of faculty for female athletes showcases how money it’s sports always goes to the male athletes no matter at what level. In a more recent example that further pushes the points that were made in Washington and Karen’s journal would be the U.S. Women’s Soccer team compared to the U.S. Men’s Soccer team. Both

Represented through the source, “Equal Pay for Equal Play?” is an interesting journey for women in the sports

Gender challenges in sports have been around for centuries. Male and female genders are treated differently in more than one way. The research I have gathered show the differences in all aspects of sports related business areas such as, ticket sales, facilities, price of tickets, media coverage, Sports Illustrated covers, and sports reporters. The purpose of this research is to bring attention the disparities that women follow in the business of sports. Women are stereotyped, discriminated against, and harassed in all aspects I have discussed. So my final thoughts on my research are that women will always be acknowledged for their beauty, body, and sex appeal. A woman’s knowledge of sports, athleticism, and love for the

Women have been oppressed throughout the history of sports. There are many ways in which female athletes have been oppressed. Some examples are in the Olympics, in schools, in other countries, in the U.S, the comparison of male athletes to female and many more. Based on records, documentaries, articles, etc. of women’s sports, it is evident that female athletes are not treated equally to men by both sports organizations and the general public.

The gender difference between male and female in sports is not natural, but it is socially constructed through media, institutions, and the public

Sports activities are an overly sexualized industry and as a result, there have been many inequalities between the two genders. In the sports society amongst the two gender there are many issues: pay differences, promotion issues, and professional injustices. Society has evolved to believe that men should be muscular and play contact sports, while women should participate in less physically demanding sports and wear revealing attire. Women’s sports like women’s basketball, softball, and bodybuilding are not taken as seriously as men’s sports, which ultimately results in many women being overlooked when it comes to their athletic capabilities. Also, women are often used in advertisements to sell sport affiliated merchandise.

Throughout the decades, women have been tossed away and not been allowed to do so many things in their life, that men have been allowed to do. For example, decades ago, women were never allowed to hunt, be seperate from their husbands, or even play sports til the 1900’s. Their only job was to sit home and care for the kids while the men did all the dirty work. Sexism in sports is a wide-ranged topic that many people have ignored for most of their lives. It is clear that women in sports have been discriminated against throughout the globe, which is evidence dthrough sports history, payment of female athletes, and media representation.

Women’s sports were not always treated equally. Rader explained that “in the beginning intercollegiate sports tended to reinforce gender stereotypes,” (95). It wasn’t until the creation of Title IX, that men and women’s sports became “equal” at the college level. This allowed for more opportunities and resources for women in sports. However, men’s sports still prevail. Cahn’s article talks about how this lead to the decline of women’s leadership in sports. Today, women of color are disproportionally represented in college sports. Even though Title IX might allow for the equal treatment of women in sports, women were for so long discouraged from participating because of their gender or race that there are not enough who compete. Lastly, it is important to note that while women’s sports may be equal, the commercialization of men’s sports like football and basketball have been so predominant that the emergence of a women’s sport as something as big as football is probably never

This source is reliable because the author provided quotes from people in the sport and social media who install stereotypes to female athletes and provided their name and occupation. The goal of this source is to inform the audience about the distinctive views of people in society about women playing a male sport and contradict those views with facts. This source helps shape my argument by providing contradicting perspectives from people in the sport media about women being part of a male dominated sport instead of encouraging them. I’ll be using this source to prove a counter argument about why society is segregating men from women in sports to have an idea of their perspective on the

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.