Sports:

Gender Equality in Sports - Sports

Why should males be favored over females in the sports world? They shouldn’t but they are...

Being a women running track and field in high school and going into college next year to run, I would recommend not letting the stereotypical things that people say that men are better at sports than women get to you. if you want to be the best, be the best in whatever sport you do.

• identify qualities that they associate with male and female athletes;

• identify the attitudes they have about gender, sexual orientation, and athletics;

• understand what stereotypes are and how they harm and limit people;

• explore what stereotypes they may believe about gender and sexual orientation;

• discuss how those stereotypes show up at their school, and

• make a plan for how to debunk stereotypes about gender and sexual orientation at school.

Athletic Oportunities!

Athletic opportunities expanded across the decade, but boys’ allotment grew more than girls. By 2009-10, 53 athletic opportunities were offered for every 100 boys, compared with 41 opportunities for every 100 girls.

• By 2009-10 boys still received disproportionately more athletic opportunities than girls in all community settings — urban, suburban, towns and rural communities.

• In 2000, 8.2 percent of schools offered no sports programs, the percentage nearly doubled by 2010, rising to about 15 percent. Schools with disproportionately higher female enrollments were more likely to have dropped interscholastic sports between 2000 and 2010.

• Seven percent of public schools lost sports programs between 2000 and 2010, while less than 1 percent added sports to their curriculum. It is estimated that by the year 2020, 27 percent of U.S. public high schools would be without any interscholastic sports, translating to an estimated 3.4 million young Americans – 1,658,046 girls and 1,798,782 boys – who would not have any school-based sports activities to participate in by 2020 if the trend continues.

Title 9

Title IX passed have much higher sports participation rates than women who grew up before Title IX. Fifty-five percent of the "post-Title IX" generation participated in high school sports, compared to 36% of the "pre-Title IX" generation. Because of Title IX, more women have received athletic scholarships and thus the opportunity for higher education than would have been possible otherwise.

"Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Title IX Background and Continuing Challenges - Feminist Majority Foundation." Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Title IX Background and Continuing Challenges - Feminist Majority Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.

"Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Title IX Background and Continuing Challenges - Feminist Majority Foundation." Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports - Title IX Background and Continuing Challenges - Feminist Majority Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.

"Reducing Gender Stereotyping and Homophobia in Sports (Middle and High School)."Teaching Tolerance. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2014.