Diversifying Gender Roles

Justification of research

This research topic is important for the diversification of gender roles in society. Since the beginning of the feminist crusade, most parts of the world are moving towards diversity of gender roles to enable a gender-balanced growth of the community (Eitzen, 2016). This topic highlights to the reader the possibility of achieving gender balance in sports and its benefits to the individuals and the society at large. This topic is important to achieving gender equity in the society as the evolution of gender roles is moving towards gifting the females in the society with bigger roles other than the traditional gender roles.

This topic is also important in helping the learners in the school system to appreciate the contribution of both genders to the development of the community. In the past, the role of women in society was not largely appreciated by the males and this led to an oppression of the female gender (Eitzen, 2016). This paper enables the reader to appreciate the role of women and males in sports and in its development. Participation of females in college sports has many benefits not just to the women, but also the males and

it is this benefits that people need to be aware of in order to appreciate gender roles in society.
Sage’s work connection to the research paper
Sage's article on power and ideology in American sport explains the source of power and influence in the American society.

Sage came up with a view that the American society can be portrayed in two images, pluralistic and hegemonic (Sage, 1990). It is pluralistic in the sense that there is no social group in the US that has direct power to make decisions for the whole country. The US democratic system has been described as a government by the people and for the people, this definition is an illustration of the pluralistic nature of the American society (Sage, 1990). However, Sage also describes the society as hegemonic. This means that it is dominated by people with resources. These people remain dominant in society because of the value of money. They make the decisions but hide behind the filter of

democracy.
In sports, masculine hegemony has dominated the American sporting industry for more than a century. This is because it was the society's culture and ideology that sports are a male activity denying women the opportunity (Sage, 1990). This is because the males have controlled the power in sports and the ideology that promoted male dominance. This ideology was a brought about by males during the years of female oppression in order to confine the women to the traditional roles (Sage, 1990). Sage concluded that very few people were aware that sports were connected to the very core of our beliefs, values and cultural practices and that it was impossible to separate sports from culture (Sage, 1990). Title IX purpose was to bring about plurality in sports and to bring to an end the masculine hegemony that has dominated the sporting arena for decades.