Women in sports has been a controversial topic for many that creates discourse within the ideas of gender identity, gender conformity, and feminist action toward the progression of women within culture. There has been much progression toward women’s equality since the start of the 20th century. This originally started with legislation on women’s rights and equality, such as Title IX. This wave of feminism has put an agenda on the shoulders of women in sports to get more women into sports. This also goes towards more people attending and watching sporting events that cover women’s sports. This leads to the uncomfortable conversation about pay and that can lead to a cultural divide. Some of this discourse may come from uninformed statements and …show more content…
womanly personality traits (sympathy, warmth, and expressiveness) (Lagaert et al., 2019). These objective traits are not as valued in a sports setting, and there is a correlation between one’s specific traits and sports participation. People are subject to gender conformity; they learn to display their gender identity through interaction. Through interaction, women learn to express feminine qualities and to lean away from more masculine qualities. Even though for the most part women have more cultural freedoms to reject feminine norms and qualities, many conform to traditional gender ideology which leads them away from sports. In the 1920s, women in the physical education field tried to move to a differently modified style of sport in which young women could stay away from the aggression, toughness, and primitiveness of the male style of sport (Cooky, 2018). After the second wave of feminism in the 1960s, women in sports activism, attendance, and participation have been rising ever since. However, when it comes to women in sports media, not all coverage is good …show more content…
If women athletes were to accept more feminine qualities as the norm as well as still participate in sports, it could start to create cultural change. Contrary to popular belief, author Cheryl Cooky in “Women, Sports, and Activism” makes it clear that diverse women were the initial foundation for women’s sports. Women of the working class, color, and immigrant women were not held to the same standards of traditional womanhood. This means they were not subject to normal social and gender barriers and they were supported to join leagues and teams. However, they can be held back by different social and economic barriers. In college athletics, the fastest-growing women’s sports are the ones that require significant money toward facilities or equipment such as rowing, soccer, and golf (Cooky, 2018). This means that women of the working class may not have the opportunity to participate solely because of their economic status. It also means that black women, who are disproportionately poor, are at an automatic disadvantage. In summary, the controversy around women in sports covers an underlying struggle for women’s equality, specifically within
Courageous Athletes and the Gender Barrier Sports have always maintained barriers concerning the gender of the athletes. Women as well as men have been discriminated in sports, which have for so long been defined as a one-sex sport. For example, boxing had long been considered a sport for males only. Another example is gymnastics, which is usually considered a feminine sport, but also have male participants. However, although sports in general have come a long way in sex discrimination, keeping
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comes to an end, readers are left with a shocking reaction. Shirley Jackson’s Characters continuously participate in a lottery, where the reasoning for it has been forgotten. Throughout Shirley Jacksons Story of “The Lottery” readers can see how conformity can bring out the evilness in human nature, by characters continuing a tradition regardless of immorality. Throughout the story of the lottery the villagers all conform to a tradition where they no longer remember the reasoning for participating
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