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Essay Galaxy - The Treatment of a Women in Sports
The Treatment of a Women in Sports
"Women are always nervous about being aggressive. Parents don't even realize this. And it's not done on purpose. But girls are taught to be passive from the pink blanket to when she falls down, to how they are held, how they are talked to, how they are told they are pretty. If a boy falls down, the father says, "Get up, you're okay." If a girl falls down, they say, "Oh, are you all right?" She's being told to be passive. If a woman is aggressive, people say she's a bitch, they don't like it. But women and men need to be appropriately aggressive. And we're not."
ABSTRACT:
Women�s Professional sports? In early 20th century the idea of women engaging in an aggressive or even a �perspiring� sport was unthinkable. Throughout history women have been creating stepping stones to achieve parity in exposure in compensation that i....
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