Gender Stereotypes In Sports

Sports, it’s a very powerful social change because it teaches women to be strong, have confidence and raises self-esteem. It changes them. In general, there is this perception of sports that embodies positive values and morals, such as cooperation, mutual respect, fair play and equality. However, sport can also reflect the prejudices that divide society, the most often seen one is gender. There is still this separation between the genders within these sports as men are considered more athletic than women. At Cardinal Carter Catholic High School while both the male and female’s soccer teams are very much alike in terms of rules, practices and activities, the fact that they are segregated by their sex and how each gender performs influences the
Once this negative attitude is applied to how coaches chose to approach teaching the girls on the team, it began to deteriorate their own confidence when playing the sport. My team was made up of four or five girls who genuinely wanted to learn new skills and play the game, whereas the rest found the practices as more of a social event that they showed up to for an hour, twice a week. The less interest shown and motivation give towards our team, caused us to develop the same feelings towards the game and not care as much. Whereas the boys were taught well and given the confidence and motivation needed in order to prosper within the sport. This then allows the boys to get better and go further with the sport compared to the girls. “Opportunities for girls at the interscholastic level had been reduced because of an overall attitude that girls could not play or had no desire to participate in sports at the same competitive level as boys” (Gender Equality and Women in Sports. p. 489). Historically, women have been discriminated against in sports and have not been provided with the same opportunities as men. An extensive discrepancy has existed between men’s and women’s sports in the supply of enough equipment, training facilities, coaching staff, playing fields, trainers, and adequate