Girl Wins by an Oppenent Forfeiting

By Justin Baldonado
Class-Kin 338I Section 48

I came across an article on the yahoo sports section and read about a description in which a high school state championship was forfeited due to the beliefs of a young man did not want to engage in contact with a female. His belief was stated that he believes that wrestling is a violent sport and shoving a woman's face down on the face mat is undignified. I thought it was strange that his reasons for not wrestling the girl was either it would be embarrassing if he had lost to a girl or if in any way it was sexual. His beliefs must of been very strong since it was the state tournament and his record was very triumphant. This is exactly where the female's roles in sports are unfair and unjust. In physical contact sports, very few women participate since the insufficient amount of participants engage and the lack of funding. Title 9 used to state that women were not allowed to participate in any physical sports due to health risk and male domination. However, nowadays women are allowed to compete and it is unjust and unsatisfying for women to win by either forfeit or default due to their gender. Women should not be deprived from their talented athletic abilities due to incompetent males who believe it immoral to be in physical competitiveness with the opposite sex. The male wrestler stated that he believes in the Bible that everyone must treat the opposite sex with respect, with that said; he believes that wrestling should not be a coed sport. I believe it should be addressed that some females want to be in touch with their physical rough competitive side such as wrestling, hockey, etc. and some males want to be in touch with their soft feminine side. In that sense, players should not hold back from one another if the same amount of ambition, talent, and prize is on the line due to opposite sex.

4 things women should be doing in their fitness training-But Aren't

I opened up my yahoo homepage and i was looking through the headlines i noticed one that said, "4 things women aren't doing in their workout." I opened it up to see what women are missing. It named the obvious ones such as:1. High Intensity Training, 2. Heavier Lifting, 3. Upper Body Workouts, 4. Training with a Barbel. I know that mostly professionals dont write these types of articles that are published on yahoo so I was aware not to take the article too seriously or as a tip for when I hit the gym. I started to think why is it that it named these particular fitness training workouts. I figured it was attacking womens views on working out and how they have to socially keep their look acceptable to people, like it has always been the view that women arent allowed to sweat. so women think if they do high intesity workouts they will sweat more and women arent supposed to look that way. another stereotype is that women don't look good when they are muscular ans super toned, which is why they put the heavier lifting in that list. Most men wouldnt date a women whose arms looked just like theirs, which is why women usually avoid the lifting becuase their limbs arfe supposed to look slim and slender. This also goes with upper body workouts. Women aren't seen with broad shoulders like men, a common misconception that women think if they do upper body workouts they will grow broad shoulders just like men. This is not an acceptable characteristic for a women to have. This concept was related to a reading in our book with the article called Just Do...What? Sport, Bodies and Gender. it discusses how that women are still supposed to be thin and slim with a little more tone in their muscles. There is only so much muscle that it allowed for women to have. On the other hand they could have suggested these workouts on the stereotype that women are MOST likely to skip these workouts because of these reasons. We do not know how they found out this information, did they go up to women in the gym and ask? Did they do a survey on so many women? How did they conduct their experiment to get these 4 things? Judging from looking at the article and the fact that it was a headline in yahoo I suspect that this was based of general stereotypes of what womens bodies are supposed to look like and made an inference based on that.

-Krysta A. KIN 338I s4

When Women Win To Much

http://www.womenssportslink.com/WhenWomenWinToMuch.shtml

Post by: Briana Ponce De Leon

Class: Kin 338I section 05

This article sparked an interest in me due to the fact that the view of women in sports is not seen as competitive winners. This article is about a coach from New Jersey named Nancy welch Williams. Williams has coached softball, field hockey and other sports for Shore Regional High School, and has a leading record in softball of (343-93). The Board of Education however decided not to rehire her and has blamed it on some incident with the field hockey players and cheerleaders, which really is not the reason here at all. It was shown that Williams filed a Title IX complaint last fall and now it is being investigated as to whether her reappointment decision was really based on a simple argument between the players and cheerleaders. In her complaint she claims that the ratio of coaches is not equal and states other facts that entitle her to pursue with her Title IX claim. The decision is to be decided in June for Williams case.

Overall, jealously is what sparks a lot of women's issues, I think. It's not that men do not want us to play, it is the fact that they do not want to lose to women. When women win in sports men play it makes men look weak in their eyes. Being jealous of a strong, confident, ambitious female athlete is normal for men though they will not admit it. But taking it to the level of harassing a coach for her teams success is not right. Williams obviously has a deep passion for sports, winning, and equality among sports for all women and taking her away as a coach punishes future athletes and the community of women. Title IX is a great thing for girls in high school who wish to compete competitively and possibly pursue a future in sports. Williams has every right to make that claim. Why should the football teams who have 72 players have 7 coaches and her field hockey have 82 players and only 3 coaches when she has lead them to more victories then football has ever received? It is not fair and is not equal to women! In the end I hope they rule in favor of Williams. After reading the article it is easy to see how winning too much in sports for women can become an issue of jealousy for men. Williams is a tough women who will make a difference in sports. Even if it seems small by starting with that high school in NJ, the littlest of movements for improvement will lead to the overall future success for all women in sports.

As Girls Become Women, Sports Pay Dividends

By: Nadia Higgins
Kin 338I S6

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/as-girls-become-women-sports-pay-dividends/

This article is an example how Title IX continues to bring encouraging results to women through sports and reminds society how far women have come since 1972. One of the topics in this article that stood out for me was the analysis done by Dr. Betsey Stevenson who studied the result of women in sports and role this played on their education and employment. It is incredible to me that by allowing women to participate in sports, in the1970's, would result in a 20 percent rise in education and a 40 percent rose in women in the workforce. This highlights the enormous effect that Title IX had almost immediately on women and how it continues to have on women through sport. Another topic in the NY Times article was the study done by Robert Kaestner who compared the obesity rates and physical activity to women in the 1970's, when Title IX was being introduced, to the women in earlier years. This showed the connection between physical activity and obesity which showed a constructive result on fighting obesity and women living healthier lives. For me this article was a bittersweet reminder of the progression of women, not only in the sporting world, but in society as a whole. It shows how far women have come to gain successes in sports, but disheartening that they still do not enjoy the same benefits as men. Even though Title IX is in place there is an discrimination of women in regards to sponsorships, sports coverage, salaries, coaching and respect in the sporting world. Successful strides have been made for women, but there is still a long road ahead for equality in society.

Women's Earnings (2009) As percentage of Men's

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Palasteinian Women's Soccer

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Oregon Ducks

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Women and Football

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