Gender Inequality in Sports: Impact and Perspectives

Security and sSociety

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Gender inequality is major problem that is faced by different society for long time.
The gender inequality can be explained as term that conclude that men and women are
not equal and this perspective affects the personal and professional life of both in
society. The differences that considered in this process are biological, psychological
and in terms of culture (Stoet and Geary, 2018). Some of these aspects are empirically
grounded and other are constructed socially. There are various examples are visible in
daily routine where people differentiate the roles, responsibilities and activities of men
and women based on gender. There are various fields and areas are there in which
women are provided with fewer opportunities as compared to men. This report is
providing information briefly about various perspectives of different theorits about the
impact of gender inequality in sports activities. There will be different examples will be
considered in order to evaluate the impact of gender inequality based issues in society.
In this report perspective of different authors will be taken to explain various daily life
example of gender inequality
MAIN BODY
Pavlidis y Fullagar, 2016 Society believes and approach of treating women now
has be changed, Now society members are giving equal response to men and women
both. Earlier it was challenging for the girls to participate in any kind of competitive
sport activity. Rise of Roller Derby is the great example of it, if women wants to do
something then they make hard efforts to achieve it. Roller derby is the game which is
very close or same as wrestling (Polcuch, Brooks and Bello, 2018). Earlier only men
got chance to participate in such kinds of activities. But in the year 2007, some girls
came together to create history. Till 2007 it was found that around 7927 women have
taken interest in such physical game and they have been registered in international
Roller girls. Till the end of 2013 around 40542 girl’s skaters were recorded as player of
this game. This rapid growth clearly show that gender inequality is not more present in
today’s word. Men and women both are equal and it completely depends upon the
game style of player, if the person is playing and showing something unique to audience
then individual will get success and popularity (Falk and Hermle, 2018). There is no
matter whether person is male or female. This game has raised opportunities for women
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