Gender In Sports

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in virtually any sport. The games of women's
teams, where they do exist, tend to draw only limited crowds at most levels of
competition, scholastic or otherwise. In the realm of athletic activities, the
American society has chosen not to offer the same opportunities to its women as
it traditionally has to its men. For centuries, it seems, it has generally been
accepted that sports and other activities relying upon physical performance
have been left for the men to participate in and enjoy. The women were
generally left with the "traditional" duties of managing the household for their
amusement. Just as many things have come to be drastically altered over the
course of the last century or so, so has this old fashioned idea. Women have
shown an interest of their own when it comes to sports. They have demonstrated
that they, too, want to be able to prove their physical ability and talent
through competition in a variety of athletic activities. While most of ...

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In this
environment, especially, she has been forced to identify with those around her
by taking part in the same activities and play as roughly as any one of the guys
do with each other. She has demonstrated that she does not let her sex dictate
who she is or who she wants to be. It is in part for this reason , perhaps,
that girls have started to come out of their traditional roles as demure
females and desire to step onto the playing fields with those with whom they
may have grown up. Where teams do not exist specifically for women in some
sports, some have taken it upon themselves to try and play with the guys. These
girls tend to find opposition to this type of change ...

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