GENDER INEQUALITY IN ATHLETICS

HOW OPPORTUNITIES ARE LESSENED FOR FEMALES

EMILY BARDEN
OUTLINE

Main areas of focus

Timeline impact

Why I chose this topic

This IS important
BUT WHY?

Discrimination in professional

environments

Predetermined stereotypes

Pay inequalities

1972

Protection NOT acceptance

 Grade Colleg Professional /
School e Career

Budget Cuts from male administration

Impact for the girls as dependents

Unrecognized privilege for the boys

 Grade School Colleg Professional /
e Career

Ivy League Protest

Female vs. Male rowers

Gaining Publicity

Remarkable event
Attentions / Awareness
Change
 Grade School Colleg Professional /
e Career

Leigh Castergine

First Female VP in the Front Office

When she gets a ring, shell make more money and get a bigger bonus.
PGA VS. LPGA

2000
45%

63%

2015
THEORY

Because of gender inequalities in athletics,

female opportunities are limited
PROTECTION AND ACCEPTANCE

Scholarly sources suggest

Realization is the first step

Changing predetermined stereotypes

Surpassing societal norms

Learn, teach, repeat

SELECTED SOURCES

Sabo, Don. "Mens Sport Privilege: Flying under the Radar., Sports Management
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Gilder, Ginny.Our Naked Ivy League Protest: "These are the Bodies Yale is Exploiting".
Salon, 2015.
Grossman, Joanna, and Deborah Brake. "If She Dont Win Its a Shame: Female Executive
Sues New York Mets for Pregnancy Discrimination., Maurice A. Deane School of Law at
Hofstra University, 6 Sept. 2014. Accessed 5 Dec. 2016.
"THE WAGE GAP: THE WHO, HOW, WHY, AND WHAT TO DO." , National Women's Law
Center, Sept. 2016. Accessed 1 Dec. 2016.