According to Castle, the founder of modern Olympics Baron Pierre de Coubertin says, “No matter how toughened a sportswoman may be, her organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks.” gender equality has come a long way since 1896 no doubt, but it wasn't until 1972 that Title IX was created that equality in sports really took hold. Title IX banned gender discrimination in all schools, including athletics making it possible for girls to have their own sports. If boys had baseball then girls had softball and so on.
In a recent study, statistics have shown that female sports do not carry the same weight as male sports. Men get $179 million more in athletic scholarships than females do.Additionally, collegiate institutions spend just 24 percent of their athletic operating budgets on female sports, as well as just 16 percent of recruiting budgets and 33 percent of scholarship budgets on female athletes. Although Title IX abolished gender bias in sports this still happens, I believe it should be if not cut in half, at least be close.
Castle concludes by telling us how women's sports is valued less than mens sports, meaning that women wages and television coverage is less than what men's sports is. I think that this is a result of women's sports are not as fierce as men's sports. You don't see women hitting 400 foot homeruns in front of 45,000 fans, and you don't see women hitting 300 yard drives in golf.
so let me ask you this, What if women's sports were covered as much as men's? would they feel more adrenaline and perform at a higher level? they just might but unless some one comes along to break the gender barrier in sports just like Jackie Robinson did with race, we may never know.
Work Cited
Cassel, J.. N.p.. Web. 10 Feb 2014. <http://www.livestrong.com/article/247625-gender- discrimination-in-sports/>.
