Final Paper
Discrimination In Sports
This paper will explore the issues of women in sports: athletics, stereotyping, and opportunities available to females in the arena of athletics. Indeed, racism and sexism continue to permeate American society and its institutions. There have been a number of laws passed to alleviate these deep-rooted values, Affirmative Action being the most notable. However, females in America continue to be viewed as the "weaker sex" and unavoidably this mentality continues to impact on women in American society.
In 1972 the Supreme Court passed Title IX. It stated:
"No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discriminatio
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