Gender Inequality in Sports

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Men and women have been separated since the beginning of life. God put Adam in charge of the Earth. When God created Eve, he took a piece of Adam’s rib from his stomach to create Eve. From this story that came from the bible, men believe that God made them better than women. And this has created a gender inequality between man and woman ever since then. Gender inequality, as stated on The Free Dictionary’s website is, “the difference between women and men in regard to social, political, economic, or other attainments or attitudes, or the problem perceives to exist because of such difference.” I believe that, when it comes to women’s sports, there is a pretty big difference in genders. Some of these differences are caused by men. A good example is that there are an enormous amount of men that take it as a joke. Most men feel that women just do not have the capability to ever have the strength and skills to compete with men. While others look at it as women are too girly to play and that they will cry and complain if they break a nail. Some think women are too fragile and if they try to compete against a man they will get badly injured. I believe these opinions that men have about women in sports, leads to the gender inequalities in it.
A prime example to begin with is, investigating the inequalities on the collegiate level. I am curious to see the number of women that are a head coach of a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport on the division one level. After I find these stats, I will see how many of these coaches actually coach for a men’s sport. I am curious about this situation because I already know that there is more men, who are head coaches than there are women. I want to know why the NCAA has an inequality ...

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...espect I feel it does deserves. Almost every women in sports practices just as hard as men do. Women put in their blood, sweat, and tears into their sport just like men do. Also, women participate in sports even when Mother Nature visits them and to me that seems like that would take a lot of effort to still compete. I have seen Oklahoma’s point guard, Whitney Hand, back in 2009, tear her ACL to a degree, where I know if that happened to any man, they would be in the same pain. I believe that if more men actually sit down and watch women’s professional sports then it could possibly become a bigger empire.

Works Cited

ESPN "Oklahoma's Hand Done For Year." ESPN.com. Associated Press, 30 Nov. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2014.
Kahl, Kristie. "NCAA Inequality." The Rider News. 04 Apr. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2014
"Gender Inequality." The Free Dictionary. Farlex, Web. 03 Apr. 2014.

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