Women in Sports Women today have the most opportunities ever when it comes to sports. ... Allowing women the same rights as men in sports is just the right thing to do. ... Overall the popularity of male sports to female sports is the reason there are so many more sports for men. ... Once he was on the team people started to complain that it wasn't fair. ... It seems more and more girls are becoming interested in sports. ...

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Nothing was really going in favour of upping women's participation and opportunity in sports. ... This obviously applied in the sports aspect of colleges, universities and high schools. ... Colleges, universities and high schools were now forced to publish their expenses on male sports and female sports. ... The statistics show that there still is some ironing out of amature sports in the United States. ... These schools initiated women's sports enhancement programs. ...

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Having a deep love for sports, I am appreciative that people have worked so hard to make opportunities available to women in sports. ... Of course, there are also negative opinions of Title IX and people do argue adamantly against the effects of the law. ... Some people argue that even though Title IX is supposed to "prohibit sexual discrimination in federally assisted education programs", the discrimination has not diminished, it has simply crossed the gender boundary. ... People who oppose Title IX believe that it is not fair because even though interest and participa...

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Within sports, heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. ... Women's sports continue to receive and substantially less amount of news coverage and airtime than men's sports. ... Unlike men's sports, women's sports are often played during the afternoon, a time that prevents many spectators from attending and sends a message that women's sports are less important than males. ... The overall lack of economic growth and revenue that women's sports produce are large contributing factors to the disregard for women's sports. ... In contrast to these perce...

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It is a place where people can come and have rights and be able to do the things they want to do, and be who they want to be. ... Today, more girls are encouraged to participate in sports and other activities. ... "Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Interesting Facts About Athletics, Sports, and Title IX - Feminist Majority Foundation." Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Interesting Facts About Athletics, Sports, and Title IX - Feminist Majority Foundation. ... ....

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In the same study, "It is a myth that the growth of women's sports has been responsible for the elimination of men's sports," says Donna Lopiano executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. ... (Women's Sports Foundation, NCAA) When women and men participate in sports dominated by the opposite gender there is often great objection to individuals defying the norm. Often women are the people who attempt to participate in so called non-traditional sports. ... Many people see men as a threat to this value believing that a mans presence on the field could intimidate th...

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Once a year Sports Illustrated releases one of the most popular issues of their magazine, the swimsuit edition. ... By targeting a broad audience there is an appeal to both men and women, young and old, all ethnic groups, and people of diverse interests. ... Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition puts a focus on the female body and not the female in the world of sports. ... Sports Illustrated normally highlights the physical ability of women athletes and women in sports. ... Every year, Sports Illustrated brings in a greater audience of men because sex sells. ...

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Most woman organizations believe that major sports such as men's football take up too much of the budget. ... If people continue to pay money to watch their football team every week then football is going to continue to have an enormous budget and rightfully so. ... This just shows that without money, you do not have anything as sustaining a college sports program. ... Gymnastics, swimming, and wrestling are the sports that are getting hit the most from Title IX. ... One other issue to that has many people, especially women, raising eyebrows is the correlation between an athlete's ed...

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The reasons for this is that the people in positions of authority in the newspapers are male and so the males are more interested in the male sports like football and rugby, instead of hockey, so they print stories or broadcast these sports. ... This again is due to the fact that the people in authority to say what gets printed and what doesn't are men. ... This is because the women's events are not as well covered by the media as men's so get less people watching them. With less people watching them companies will not put money into the competition so players will get less o...

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As much as Title IX has done for women's sports it is having a devastating impact on men's sports. ... Since 1991, 20,800 male sports have been eliminated while only 5,800 women's sports have been added. ... This presumes that women want to participate in sports as much as men do. ... Everyone did not just let the ORC drop men's sports without fighting it. ... Some people complain that females out number males sixty five percent to thirty five percent in nonsports extracirricular activities. ...

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Sex is rampant in advertising and no other type of psychological imagery hits people closer to where they live. ... People sometimes argue that "the female body is beautiful, why do we have to be so uptight?" ... In fact, it would probably be offensive to continually show actors and sports stars barely dressed with "come hither" looks on their faces. ...

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There was a story on Iraq, but not on the devastation and sadness of the people. It was a story on how people made themselves happy such as sending in clowns for the children. ... There's a couple of columns on sports such as football and fishing. A women's magazine would have very few articles on sports. ... The article in a men's magazine, would write about it in a usual tone because they seem to dominate most popular sports. ...

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We like to play sports, wrestle around with each other, or anything that involves using are muscles. ... A lot of people think women are very clumsy or ditzee. ... Like watch sports, play sports, build things and drink. ... People will forget about it as time goes by. ...

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One of the main groups of people who must deal with major stereotypes is the American male. ... As children, playing high school sports is the way to be strong and fit in. ... Theroux feels that "the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts" . Sports can have a positive effect on the person who is playing. ... They feel that sports are the key to being like every other boy in their age group. ...

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At first all the men in the room thought it was a new sports center or sports report coming on television because of the anchors, using sports lingo and the sports report music playing in the background. ... They know what men like, men like sports, men like women, and men like any hair color but GRAY! ... However, people already know that commercials are just used to sell something to the viewer, so it's always amazing as to why people even watch them anymore and that commercials are still used as a successful product seller or identifier. ... This approach to people's minds ma...

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In terms of supporting her claims, she gave good examples, such as how women complain about sports, "but they would not think of discouraging their sons from participating in this activity they find so foolish" says Pollott. As for the husbands, Pollitt says that are sports fans, yet the wives accept it and still love them. ... The roles of males and females have not because for most people it is not a disturbing matter. ... The boys" section would have guys" toys such as, action figures, sports car, and toy guns. ...

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People in the female group or gender worked lower paying less demanding jobs because It was believed that a woman could not handle the pressures that a "man's job' required. ... Some women's sports are pretty interesting to watch. ...

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Society expects certain standards from both men and women that are not always the right things to follow for people to feel at peace with themselves. ... It is expected for a boy to be good at sports, and think pink is a girly color, and not want to ever play with dolls. ... In 1997, a typical year, 4,483 young people aged five to twenty four committed suicide: 701 femals and 3,782 males." ... Boys are at odds with themselves, feeling as if something is wrong with them if they have an emotional feeling, or if they aren't into sports. ... This can only be stopped by parents and people all ...

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Concerned with being good parents, people are accumulating a lot of information on the subject. ... These sports are famous for the large number of gay players that are involved. ... The girl participated actively in sports such as basketball and baseball, demonstrating good technical skills at both. ... The girl participated actively in sports such as basketball and baseball, demonstrating good technical skills at both. ... Most of the people are still uncomfortable with gays. ...

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Gender Roles Gender Roles are one of the various topics we have learned about in Gender roles are a collection of attitudes and behaviors that are considered normal and appropriate in a specific culture for people of a particular sex. ... In their free time men play sports, work out. ...

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For example these claims say that women are weaker than men, women are not physically capable of playing sports, or a woman's place is in the home rather than on the playing field. ... This ideology has filtered into present society, resulting in a few number of African Americans or people of color who participate in the sport. ... We can alleviate and erase these myths surrounding the inferiority of women and the superiority of men in the arena of sports. ... It is commonly believed that boys are better suit for playing sports and girls are not regarding their physical capabilities.  ....

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The only difference between Miranda and other female students was that she did not participate in sports. ... Conflict theorists could see this aspect as a way for people to keep life exciting and challenging. ... It is upsetting to observe the way that other people look down on or judge others. In today's society there are people that have been taught to dislike others for a lot of different reasons. This will probably continue until all people view the human race as one unit and not individual units. ...

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Gender is very much about how people perceive us, and our behaviour (personality, identity and self-expression) determines how we will be "perceived." ... Few people actually do conform exactly to their predetermined gender role: A certain lack of conformity is not only expected, it is increasingly seen as welcome. ... Transgendered people who fail to behave within the acceptable range of behaviours expected of their gender roles are simply not tolerated in our society. This is the truth about the world in which we live, that it classifies people according to stereotypical beliefs. ... Numb...

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A Man thinks that there is no use in two people remembering the same thing, because he knows that his mate will remember. ... One of men's favorite pastimes is sports. If a man is watching sports and his favorite team is loosing, he will often stomp on the floor, and yell the player's names; he thinks the players can hear him. ...

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Mulan, while staying away from the dieting, "teaches" girls that to get what they want and to help other people, they must look, act and dress like a boy. ... With the second season of the WNBA, girls who play basketball finally have sports heroes. ... If a girl is athletic and on sports teams, she is also that much less likely to diet. ...

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