ABSTRACT
The impact of federal anti-discrimination laws such as Title IX and the Amateur Sports Act have opened the doors of sport participation opportunity to girls and women in sports over the last 25 years. Such participation has created new and more lucrative consumer markets for sporting goods manufactures, as well as college and professional sports teams. The prospect of economic gain has created significant social changes: Women are now being encouraged to participate in sports and embrace the resulting benefits, and the general public is showing increased support for gender equity in sports.
Subject(s)
Sports , Women's Rights/legislation & jurisprudence , Athletic Injuries/prevention & control , Female , History, 20th Century , Humans , Sex Factors , Sports/economics , Sports/history , Sports/legislation & jurisprudence , Stereotyping , United States , Women's Rights/historyABSTRACT
We simply cannot be put in a position in which we are forced to choose between our sons and our daughters with regard to the provision of educational opportunities--including educational sport. Sports participation provides many significant psychological, sociologic, and physiologic benefits to girls and women. Girls and women need to be encouraged to play sports and must be provided with the same opportunities as are available to boys.
