The Ethical Role Of Sex Discrimination In Sports

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Since the world was created, women have been thought to be inferior to men. The female sex has been given less of a chance to succeed in a variety of fields based on their lack of physical prowess and other characteristics. They have been considered people who cannot do as much as men can do and people who are supposed to take care of the household instead of necessarily working a "real" day job. These ideologies may have a modest amount of validity to them; however, though they are capable of doing many of the same activities that males can do, women have struggled over the years to gain deserved influence in a world that is very favorable toward men. Sex discrimination has long been a problem surrounding athletics. Whether it involves opportunities to participate, positions in management and coaching, or pay, prejudice based on gender is always being discussed. Even after legislative acts such as Title IX were brought into existence, the realm of sports cannot seem to fully grasp the …show more content…

This may be a moral issue; however, it needs to be brought up in order to be fair to those who advocate against it. Situations like these lead to females seeing males undressing or without clothes on at all, and place both the players and the interviewers in an awkward state of affairs. Through these conditions, it may become a temptation for those who have moral beliefs to take action against their values and therefore create tension in numerous areas of the player's and the interviewer's lives. This dilemma could easily be handled with control from authorities and security concerned with letting press into the locker room, although they would have to let both genders of reporters in at the same time in order to not be

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