Women athletes have made huge strides since Title IX but there is still room for improvement. The media coverage of female athletes needs to change for all the young girls who look up to these female athletes as role models and the mass media needs to take a more active role and cover male and female sports equally. (Will Anything Change, http://femaleathletes.wordpress.com/, May 5, 2008) The text was directed mostly toward women athlete community, while speaking to any woman who has had experience with the culture of the athlete community also; targeting male and female to understand the discriminating
I could not help but wonder if I had helped these girls truly be the best players they could be or if their hopes would be crushed by embarrassment on the field and a large margin of defeat. Before the game, I took them to the end zone for a quick pep talk to remind them of the time and hard work they had given to this team. We broke out of the huddle and the game began. We scored on our first possession and never looked back from that point. The girls were executing every play to perfection.
The First U.S. Woman’s Gymnastics Olympic Gold Medal Have you ever heard about Kerri Strug? If you haven’t than you are missing out. If you have heard about her then you probly know what an amazing person she is, or wait a minuet do you even know what she did to be so great? Kerri Strug was on the 1992 and the 1996 Olympic Gymnastics teams. Kerri helped lead the 1996 Olympic gymnastics team to get the gold medal, and may I add it was the first time for the U.S. Woman Olympic Gymnastics to ever win the gold medal.
Spartan Women According to feminist Simon de Beauvoir author of The Second Sex “More than any other Greek women, Spartans have been subject of praise or blame from antiquity to present.” . The women of Sparta have a vital role within Sparta society as they were responsible for producing healthy babies as well as partaking in the running of the economy. They differ greatly from their Greek counterparts in that not only do they have an education which enables them to participate on Spartan society but they can own land and partake in sports and ceremonies. Unlike their other Greek counterparts Spartan women received a thorough education and harsh upbringing so they could play a greater role in Spartan society. Spartans were they only Greek society that prescribed a public education for girls.
Wilma was happy that her own success had helped women athletes and black athletes. Wilma died in Nashville, Tennessee ,but her life continues to inspire people all over the world. Throughout her life, Rudolph never let public racism or personal hardship get in the way of her dreams. Harnessing the same determination that made here a great athlete, Rudolph went on to use here celebrity to help
Elaine was proudly coached by Peter Burrows and Marylynn Gelderman throughout her amateur and professional career. She was one of the first woman to land many triple jumps in her programs. In fact, Elaine landed six triple jumps to win the world championship title in 1982(Ryan, Joan). In addition, Zayak was apart of the first trip to China by American Skaters for a competition. There was a Zayak rule, inacted at the 1982 ISU Congress, which states that many not perform the same kind of jump more than twice, and for it to be given full credit on both occasions, one of the two triples must be incorporated into a combination or sequence(Farris, JoAnn Schneider).
This would be a good book to have for Black History or Women’s Month. The book discusses how women are Presidents and General Managers of professional women basketball teams, women as professional athletes, trainers, and referees. It depicts women as role models, and sports reporters. This is beneficial and serves the purpose for future women who want to break into professional sports like men do. You’ll get to know Val Ackerman, who made the dream of a professional basketball league for women a reality.
The BPP was very key in giving women equal rights and permitted them to play an important role at all levels. Many women today owe their success to the efforts of the BPP. When the men of the party weren’t able to be leaders and control the party, the women stepped into lead. In the movie Panther, the women are seen coming to the office to join the party but didn’t want them given jobs typical women would receive. Like coping papers and answering phones.
Women have been fighting for generations for gender equality in society. They have fought for numerous rights such as voting, education, political status, career choices, positions in military, and sport opportunities. A few forms of media I will discuss are my favorite channel/radio stations, which are ESPN and other major sports networks. Gender bias in American sports has always been a heated topic. This is an extremely sensitive subject for the current female athletes and female sport fans.
Since the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995), where women rights and gender equality were put at the center stage, countless initiatives have taken place all around the world to allow girls and women to have access to the same opportunities as men do. There has been progress in the way girls are pushed to go to school and in how women are today encouraged to take up leadership positions both in public and private organizations. Rwanda for example, has the highest ratio of women parliamentarian in the world (61.3%). (IPU, 2017). Despite such progress, there is still a long way to go.