Why Do Men Get More Recognition Than Women In Sports

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Have you ever heard of Shelly Osborne? If you haven't that's because girls get less recognition than boys in sports. She was the first girl to play college football. A big percentage of both women and men said men are better at sports, with “32% of women feeling that way and 47% of men, the pool found.”
Do you think that it is fair that boys get more recognition than girls? No, girls get less recognition than boys. Mens sports seem to be more exciting with higher production and higher quality coverage. Female athletes are not equal to their male counterpart in terms of physical ability. When you watch woman sports there are fewer cameras angles, fewer instant replays and it will seem like a slower game to watch. I believe that girls do get less recognition in the …show more content…

“Getting women into the stands is key to winning television coverage and the big salaries that come with that exposure,” said Michael Graber, a sports cinematographer and father of two girls. Mens sports seem to be more exciting with higher production and higher quality coverage. “90% of sport editors are white males,” due to the low involvement of women in media, there seems to be a lower quality of coverage in females sports. The difference in coverage, the Final Four teams for the men's NCAA basketball tournament got front page attention on New York Times. Would the women? The women only received a story without a photo deep in the sports section. “Women's sports in general is not worth watching- Sports Illustrated contributor Andy Benoit on Twitter, 2015. “According to the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, women’s athletics receive only about 4 percent of all sports media

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