“Women in sports” All throughout the country women’s sports are not considered as important as men’s sports. Many women’s college sports don’t receive the recognition that male sports do based on rumors that females are not as good as athletes as males are. There are plenty of women’s sports teams though that proves this theory false. The WNBA is a professional basketball league for women. There are also women pro football leagues and the women’s hockey team won the gold medal. Many people also believe that since they don’t bring the money that male sports do on a college level to a university they are as not important. Before Title IX women did not receive an equal opportunity to play sports like males did in school. Title IX was passed in 1972 and was set up to give women equal chances at playing sports like males have. Title IX states that all schools that receive federal funding must have the same number of scholarships for male and female athletes. Title IX has led to many more women playing sports in college. Therefore it has also allowed those college athletes to set up pro leagues and that’s why we are seeing many more professional women sports teams. More women are participating in college sports today then ever thanks to Title IX. During the 1971-72 season, fewer then 30,000 women participated in college varsity sports, and less then fifteen percent of college varsity athletes were female. (Crowley) During the end of the 1998-99 season, nearly 146,000 women were playing sports and that made up forty one percent of varsity athletes being women. Before the year 1972 women did not have the same chances as men to play sports. They set up a law title IX that all schools that receive federal funding must offer the same opportunities to women as they do men. Title IX was probably the most essential thing that let women the opportunities to play sports on a organized level. Many athletes say with out title IX they would not be able to play the sports they love. Sheryl Swoopes, a member of the WNBA team the Houston Comets is a all star in the WNBA and Olympic Gold medallist, states that title IX has helped all women gain self confidence through sports. Title IX gave and continues to give women opportunities to compete and learn from sport. Women who compete in sports have higher self confidence in their personal lives and know hoe to work hared within a team frame work. I was shy child who gained so much self confidence through sport. Sports helped me believe that I could achieve anything that I set my mind to.(Swoopes, Sheryl “How Title IX Helped me”) One main reason that women sports don’t receive the same publicity as male sports is because women sports are not “out there” as much as male sports to the media.
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