From the beginning, wifehood and motherhood have been regarded as a women’s profession. They were not seen as breadwinners or professionals. As history has told us, women were considered the weaker sex, doing jobs such as laundry, milking cows, and taking care of children, leaving the “heavier” labor to the big strong men (wic.org). With technological advancement today, physiological test suggest women have a greater pain tolerance and statistics show that women live longer and are more resistant to many diseases. In the 20th century, women in most nations won the right to vote, this in return increased their educational and job opportunities.
The addressing of the media having a role in projection of a female athlete role interjects the media may not always send the best message concerning a female athlete, which is a message of femininity concerning the athlete. The interjection of the media cast typing how female athletes are always feminine no matter the sport you play; it will always have a feminine illusion of the female athlete. Society tells us that boys are the athletic ones and girls are beautiful. However, more and more women are making a living for athletic ability, most of the time because they are a beautiful athlete. Women athletes have made huge strides since Title IX but there is still room for improvement.
The government decided to start a propaganda campaign to get women working to help with the war. They promoted “Rosie the Riveter” as the ideal woman worker: loyal, efficient, patriotic, and pretty. (Sorensen 3) The campaign was a success because the women stepped in to take the factory jobs that the men left behind when they went off to war. The women took jobs such as making ammunition, uniforms, and air planes. They were also doing jobs such as welding, riveting and engine repair.
In addition, people thought that women are too sensitive when they face to problems so they often solve the problems by their heart than their mind. But people was wrong with that thinking, because the presence of women in leadership position have been increasing during the past decades. According to Stuart Silverstein (1993) a writer of Times website: "The number of American women in management jobs nearly doubled during the 1980s, reflecting
Since some women don’t play certain sports such as ice hockey, wrestling, football, boxing, rugby, etc it gives women an opportunity to participate in other different sports. Before this title was passed men were generally the ones receiving athletic scholarships and funding to participate in sports. It was very rare women received the same type of scholarship. One might ask why don’t some women play the same sports as men? Well the article states that gender bias occurs when we evaluate and deem what behavior is categorized as masculine and feminine.
To counter that argument however I’d refer back to my introduction, 22 years ago, the FA officially joined with the W(omens)FA to try and make women’s football more spread to the masses, the FA is one of the biggest footballing corporations in the world and make billions annually, yet they aren’t afraid to express constant support for gender equality in Britain, the FA hopes in the next 23 years both genders will be equally recognised within their beloved sport. It isn’t only social factors that circulate around gender equality (or differences) in football. Technology is also part of this due to the incredibly popular sports game franchise, FIFA. Not to be mistaken for the football federation for which the game was titled. For 18 years FIFA has been growing under the development of EA Sports.
Do you agree with the view that the suffrage movement made ‘substantial progress’ during the first decade of the twentieth century? During the first decade of the 20th century the suffrage movement made significant changes in the way that they campaigned for the vote. Their change in tactics did have some positive effect on the campaign however it did alienate some politicians as they felt the new violent tactics proved that women did not deserve the vote. Even though they brought female suffrage to the attention of the public eye there progress was limited as in they were not able to actually achieve their goal of female suffrage. During the first decade of the 20th century the suffragettes more militant style campaigning was met with a lot of opposition.
Men have been seen as leaders in sports for so long that the idea of venturing into the coaching world may be overlooked by women. Additionally, the lack of women in the coaching field means fewer mentors for young girls to look up to and in turn fewer connections to get them started. “Since there is a lack of female coaches, any female who starts in the coaching profession has a lack of female guidance. Having guidance is important in establishing a network that would allow the coaches to move among schools and other opportunities” (Ellis & Masterson, p.
This leads to hegemony, where the powerful remain in control. In today society, female sports do not get the recognition that men sports do in that they do not make the same amount of money, the same amount of respect, and the same amount of television coverage. Gender discrimination root comes from the interest and desires of society. Female athletes are frequently looked upon as not being as entertaining or lacking athleticism compared to male athletes.
People often do not acknowledge women sports as much as men's sports. From the time of early Olympics, the role of women in sports and games was neglected. The end of the 19th century and turn of the 20th century saw the rising interest of women in sports both as participants and spectators. Since then, for many years, women have been looking to be taken seriously in sports the same way men are. This leaves a question about the worlds most loved sport, football; why isn’t women’s football as recognised as men’s?