Are Women Equal In Sports And Women's Equality?

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Equality is when someone have the same opportunity and rights as everyone else but, in some cases men and women are not equal . In society unfortunately men have more rights than women. In some parts of the world this statement is more drastic.One issue that every country seem to have is female and sports. Females have less pay, less press release that make is seems as if females playing sports is irrelevant also females not allowed to play the same sports as males. In college male athletes seem to get more scholarship opportunities than female. This is because the male basketball team is more popular than a female team. When someone turn on the tv to a sports channel one is more likely to see males playing football or basketball this is because the media focus more on the male side of the game because it sells more. I can name 10 basketball players off the top of my head and so can most people that are into sports.but, if you ask me to name 10 female basketball players I couldn't even name one unfortunately. Society of men still thinks women playing sports it's simply unattractive and only men should be playing football or basketball this is why the media focus more on the mall side of the game. How this affects female and sports is they don't get the recognition they deserve this can lead to females getting discouraged. …show more content…

For example, in tennis men use to get more prize women the a women this recently changed in 2007. In the world cup women have came along way even more than men. Women have won a lot more games than men but, women still gets lss pay.Each women on the on the USMNT (united states soccer team) gets 99,000 a year if the team wins 20 exhibition matches on the other hand on the male soccer team they get paid $263,320 each even if they lose a match this still have not

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