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
Factors that helped shape the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002 were social, economic and political factors. Sybil Newall from Great Britain competed in the 1908 games that were held in Great Britain. Only 2 percent of the athletes were women. The percentage went higher in 1992 from 2 percent to 29 percent. Hassiba Boulmerka an Algerian competitor, who competed in the 1992 games in Spain states that she wins give her confidence for all women in her country.
Many negatives still rise from Title IX, such as who coaches the teams. Since women are allowed to play in sports, should women be allowed to coach sports? This interesting question has brought conclusions that still show the inequality of women being “doubted” of coaching a specific sport team. According to _Sport in Society: Issues and _Controversies, it states, “From 2000 and 2002, 326 out of 361 new jobs for head coaches of women’s teams went to men” (Coaxley, Chapter 8). This is definitely a downgrade of women coaches for organizing and directing a sports team.
Obama mention how he sighed the Lily Led better Bill, which purpose was to give a big impact on women's future. As mention by Romney, he stated that in the last 4 years women have lost 580,000 jobs and how he wants to help women. Their plan now is, hoping Lily Led better would help in someway and make a decrease on women unemployment. In my belief Obama and Romney had a good point by wanting to help women in finding a good job in which they can adapt. But in this case, for me it seem Obama won the debate.
This provides your essay with a clear, structured argument. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the vote, if they owned property or were married to a property owner. The major reason for women receiving the vote has been a fundamental source of debate amongst historians. Whilst traditional schools of thought argue that women’s work during WWI radically changed male ideas about their role in society with traditional historians such as Ray suggesting that giving women the vote in 1918 was almost a ‘thank you’ for their efforts, revisionist historians, however, find this analysis too simplistic. AJP Taylor, for example, argues that the war ‘smoothed the way for democracy’ and so there are other factors of significance, such as, suffrage campaign groups (WSPU & NUWSS) and growing equality with men.
A victory party was held by suffragist societies at the Queen’s Hall in March 1918. However, there were women who still saw the act as a betrayal as it still classed them as second class citizens to men. The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave all men over the age of 21 the right to vote (and aged 19 if the men had been on active service in the armed forces). Therefore, politically women were still not the equal to men in Britain even after the 1918 act. Women achieved full equality regarding suffragein 1928.
arol Gilligan—influential feminist psychologist and author—is worried. Gilligan's 1982 book In Another Voice (called "the little book that started a revolution" by Harvard University Press) electrified the pundit class with its premise that girls were fundamentally misread and oppressed by American society. The advocacy programs promoting equality for girls that resulted from Gilligan's call-to-arms have had an impact few would deny. In fact, they may have worked too well, as schools generally acknowledge that girls now outshine boys in grades and high level-course enrollment (even in math and science, says the National Center for Education Statistics) and outnumber them in formerly male bastions such as honor societies, debating clubs and
Gender Discrimination Change at the Olympic Games Sex refers to whether an individual is biologically male or female. Gender refers to the culturally determined roles that men and women play in a particular society. Women’s progression to elite-level status is affected by issues of sexism. In sport, sexism occurs when women are discriminated against as a result of stereotypical views of the strengths and qualities of women in a sport and the gender role that women are expected to fulfil within society. Gender discrimination has occurred at the Olympics games from many years, but there are fewer and fewer examples of it featuring in the more recent games.
Friedan brings emotion and anger to the plight of women in her era of feminism, highlighting a political issue that remained out of the spotlight for far too long. Modern feminists can learn a lot from Friedan as a pioneer for women speaking out for what they believe despite it being unpopular. Though her work mainly discussed the feelings of white middle class women, her work led to a more comprehensive study of oppression on multiple levels, called intersectionality. Though not a politician herself, Friedan was able to take steps towards bringing on meaningful political change, a problem many women are still facing today especially in the abortion debate. Friedan and Gilman’s work have formed the touchstones for the current feminist movements and will continue to play a huge role as women work to advance their rights further in the coming years.
When we go back to 19th century that was the time when it was witnessed that the male suffrage was prevailing in a number of countries and women suffrage was not there and somehow it ignited a spark among women to fight for themselves and for their rights so that they could be treated as humans and not as animals. In the year 1893, women were able to achieve equal voting rights at national level in New Zealand. The same pattern was followed in Australia in 1902. However, in America, England and Canada women could achieve same voting rights only after the First World War ended. Then came into being the famous movement called The Suffrage Movement during which the women fought for their equal voting rights which all men were enjoying at that time because they were of the view that they were a part of the society too and they deserve all the rights to elect their representatives.