Gender_Differences_In_Sports

Gender Differences In Sports Gender Differences in Sports Significance: In the last twenty years women have made valuable and remarkable strides in the world of sports. Since the educational amendment acts of 1972 (Title IX), which mandates that schools must provide equal opportunities in sports for women, the number of talented athletic women participating in sports has doubled. According to Helene A. Shugart, author of “She Shoots, She Scores,” women continue to be trivialized in media coverage of team sports and consequently are being deprived the opportunity to gain power, respect, and the sense of belonging that they deserve in the world of sports (150). The problem for female athletes is that they are marginalized, while male athletes are idolized. The rhetoric used by the media to talk about male athletes usually includes hyperbole, adulation and overemphasis on even the most minute aspect of their lives while female athletes are generally overlooked. Description: In the world of professional and collegiate sports men dominate today. It seems almost impossible that female athletes can bridge the gap between male and female athletics. Even with heightened media attention for women’s sports, females still do not come close to generating the same funds (money) that male athletes and male dominated sports, women, athletes, men, male, media, women’s, female, world, coverage, today, programs, illustrated, article, same, impossible, going, equal, dominated, cover, attention, about, while, title, sidelines, show, nfl, nba, males, little, literature, level, issue, games, feminist