How the Perspective of Women's Sports Has Changed Overtime
How Has The Perspective of Women Sports Change Over Time?
Many years ago and until recently people did not really accept the fact that women could play sports as well as men, or even play at all. Over the years, people started to accept some women as athletes at some sports, but not all of them. Sports like rugby, football and handball were only played by men. Nowadays, however, you could easily find a women playing football and many other sports they never used to play better than any of the men you know. People changed their perspective of women being involved in sports when they would see how capable the women were of being good at a sport they play. Women were not allowed at the first olympics ever played but nowadays, women play in almost all of the sports in the olympics. The rest of the essay will discuss how women sports has changed over the years in detail. In the early 1900s physical educators pointed out that women competing against each other would make them less feminine. In 1906, the first ever women's ice hockey tournament took place in Alberta with a six team league. Later on in 1912, Harriet Quimby was the first woman to ever pilot a plane across the english channel. Later on, many sport associations started to accept that women could play different sports and started working on improving the standards and giving them more options. Women first competed in the olympics in the 1900s but only in lawn tennis and golf. But later on they kept expanding and nowadays women lay all the sports in the olympics except boxing which they are planning to change in 2012. America did not allow their women athletes to compete in events without wearing long skirts, which was why they were not involved in the first women's swimming competition in 1912. The first women's swimming golden medal was won by an australian swimmer, Sarah Durack. Later on even more women sports were introduced, in 1928 women were
Many years ago and until recently people did not really accept the fact that women could play sports as well as men, or even play at all. Over the years, people started to accept some women as athletes at some sports, but not all of them. Sports like rugby, football and handball were only played by men. Nowadays, however, you could easily find a women playing football and many other sports they never used to play better than any of the men you know. People changed their perspective of women being involved in sports when they would see how capable the women were of being good at a sport they play. Women were not allowed at the first olympics ever played but nowadays, women play in almost all of the sports in the olympics. The rest of the essay will discuss how women sports has changed over the years in detail. In the early 1900s physical educators pointed out that women competing against each other would make them less feminine. In 1906, the first ever women's ice hockey tournament took place in Alberta with a six team league. Later on in 1912, Harriet Quimby was the first woman to ever pilot a plane across the english channel. Later on, many sport associations started to accept that women could play different sports and started working on improving the standards and giving them more options. Women first competed in the olympics in the 1900s but only in lawn tennis and golf. But later on they kept expanding and nowadays women lay all the sports in the olympics except boxing which they are planning to change in 2012. America did not allow their women athletes to compete in events without wearing long skirts, which was why they were not involved in the first women's swimming competition in 1912. The first women's swimming golden medal was won by an australian swimmer, Sarah Durack. Later on even more women sports were introduced, in 1928 women were