Persuasive Essay: Promoting Women's Sports

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Promoting Women’s Sports “It doesn’t matter if you are a woman or a man, the important thing is your determination,” race car driver Milka Duno proudly stated when being represented as a CNN woman. As women recognition continues to grow since the past, it still does not appear to be promoted enough. The promotion of women’s sports needs to be focused on due to inspiration passed on, gender equality, and the gratitude of women and their dedication to sports.
Because children of young age in this present day world are highly exposed to media and technology, they view more of the current known news. In this case, there are commercials, apps, videos, and highlights which grab the viewer’s attention. Younger girls who view their role models on television, or the Internet, get a drive to be just like them. Seeing the women perform in sports, the little girls become encouraged that they can do just as much to work their way to the top. If women athletes are not promoted as much, younger girls will not have the inspiration to try to be just like them. In order to continue to promote women’s sports as years pass by, present day women need …show more content…

In recordings, percentages have shown that men’s sporting commercials have taken over with ninety-six percent of the overall sports commercials; this leaves women with two percent and neutral with the other two. Therefore, women are not being promoted as much as men. Gender equality has been proven to be a major setback to the promotion of women’s sports; this must be changed. Men and women’s sporting advertisements should both be set equal to each other. Not only does this help women advertise more and show what they are really made of, but it can also raise paychecks to media casters. Looking through the flaws of not having women’s sports promoted as much as they should be, shows how much they need to be advertised to continue keeping sports

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