This week I am going to discuss what I have found over the course of the semester related to women who are involved in sports whether it is the media side of the sports side. What I have found is that women who play sports want their sports to be played on national broadcasts at prime times. They also want to be paid fairly. A lot of them believe that they should be paid the same as male athletes. Women who are on the media side such as sideline reporters are portrayed as beautiful women who might know a thing or two about sports to appeal to the male viewership. Overall women's sports have a lot of growth and changes to make. Wages need to be higher for women athletes, their sports need to be shown at prime times and the media needs to stop portraying women as just beautiful people who don't know much. Instead, the media needs to portray women as strong, smart, and independent.
Last week I wrote about Katie Sowers who is the first women coach in the NFL. Well making headlines this week is Rachel Balkovec, who is the first female hitting coach to be a part of the MLB. Now let's talk a little about stereotypes that come with women and baseball. When you think about women and baseball most people automatically think oh they have their own sport softball. Most people think that because from a young age children are told boys play baseball and girls play softball. This has changed more recently with girls playing in the little league world series. It has always been ok for men to play softball, especially slow pitch softball or recreation league softball. But otherwise, men always coached and played baseball and men and women coached and played softball. But the main point here is that men can play and coach both baseball and softball and women can only play and coach softball and not baseball. Well, things are changing for the better. When watching...
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