Saturday, December 13, 2008

Women in Sports(or the lack of)

I have been searching for different things that seem interesting enough to read and write about on the internet for quite some time. I decided that I wanted to know more about women's sports and what is going on with them at the moment, more specifically college women's basketball. Yet, oddly enough, I couldn't really find anything about any women's sports through the Yahoo Sports sections for college, which is rivals.com. There were pages dedicated to football, football recruiting, basketball, basketball recruiting, and baseball. I even found a link to high school sports on the opening rivals.com homepage. I eventually found a link to women's basketball on the link for Yahoo Sports which leads to rivals.com, but is not actually rivals.com yet. It was somewhat informative, however, it did not have nearly as much information as the men's web pages. I tried to find pages for other sports or anything about women in sports through rivals.com, but did not find anything with substance. I am very disappointed in the lack of regard the website shows for women' sports. This just goes to show that men's sports still seem more important then women's sports in many aspects. It also deals with how gender ideologies influence sports and the media because it only shows men's sports and pretty much demeans women's sports by showing no respect for them at all.

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