Sports Sociology: Gender Inequality

Charlie McGill
Dr. Roddy
IHSS
9.26.18
Gender Inequality in Sports
    Sports is a huge part of our society as a whole, so naturally it is a focus in sociology. Sports can bring people or a community together, which it often does, even on large scale levels like cities or for the olympics, countries. It can also get between people, for example if two people live rival teams. But although sports does a lot of good for our community, there is still a large discrepancy between men and women in sports, especially at the higher levels. I will be talking about this gender inequality in this blog post.
    In the past, this was an even worse issue. In the 1800’s women's participation in sports was either heavily discouraged or banned. Women didn’t have physical education in colleges until the 1850’s, and basketball, track and field, and softball were considered too masculine until the 1930’s for girls to play, and even then those didn’t become popular sports for women until later. Even in the 1970’s women weren’t allowed to run in the marathon at the olympics. This discrepancy has since dissipated a bit, but I wouldn’t say that men and women have it equal at all. I have my own experiences with this, I have seen the discrepancy in AAU basketball. My own club only has men's teams, and many clubs only have women’s teams if they also have men’s teams. Although women are taken just as seriously as men in AAU, they don’t have equal opportunities and there are less clubs to choose from (“What Is Sports Sociology?”).
    Many sports still have “masculine” and “feminine” titles on them, for instance few men do dance and few women do wrestling. Even sports that try to give equal opportunity, like basketball which still has a subtle masculine tag on it, still have tags on them. Although this issue has improved dramatically since Title IX, there is still work to be done (“What Is Sports Sociology?”).


Crossman, Ashley. “What Is Sports Sociology?” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 16 Apr. 2018, www.thoughtco.com/sports-sociology-3026288.

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