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English Women’s roles in life Women in sports have come a long way. A book written by Mariah Burton Nelson called “When women win too much” shows the struggle women go through to succeed in sports. In this book Mariah focuses on women by the name of Nancy Welch Williams. Williams has coached softball, field hockey, and other sports and has taught physical education at Shore Regional High School in West Long Branch, New Jersey since 1970. Her softball record (343-93) is the best in the nation. Before all of this success Williams endured harassment by mostly men. Williams quotes “The male sports teams would steal our equipment and also harass us after practice”. In this book is says how nobody took Williams seriously just because she was a girl. She was hired because they needed a coach overnight or the Regional high school would not have had a girl’s team. Williams was threatened to be fired for no reason and also threatened that violent acts would be performed if she did not quite. Theses types of actions are known in our society today as wrong but back then men thought nothing of it to harass a women like she was an object. women, tina, williams, men, turner, society, ike, sports, role, life, world, way, today, school, book, because, useful, took, today’s, threatened, softball, seen, same, roles, regional, record, nothing, nancy, name, music, mariah, make, mae, long, just, important