Since Title IX, more women participate in team sports in high school and college. The benefits of participating in a sport include a higher graduation rate, a higher attendance in college, least likely to become pregnant in high school and a lesser chance of becoming obese during middle age. These all sound nice when said all together, but there are still challenges women face even since the passing of Title IX.
In college basketball, the UConn Lady Huskies had the most consecutive wins in women’s college basketball. The Lady Huskies big win was not even televised on major stations. In the 2008-2009 season they had a 100% graduation rate while the men’s team only 33% of them graduated. Even the Lady Huskies own forward Maya Moore was voted by ESPN the academic All-American of the year. Still all of these accomplishments go unnoticed. When these student athletes graduate, their talents might lead them to the WNBA, but still they hardly get endorsements like men and only receive a salary of $95,000. It seems that more history has to be written for women in sports before they are actually on a real equal playing field as men or have women in sports reached the unbreakable “glass ceiling”?
Kat Arcangel kin338I sec.5
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