Women have been supplementary to men around the world through history. Woman always had to face man ideology and because of that she suffered from prejudice and discrimination. The influence of race and racial ideologies in sport has been and continues to be significant in the United States. (Brown et al., 2005). Women in sport have been always treated as she is coming from different planet, as she is below the standard, and she considered as minority group. Males have access to higher levels of privilege, power and influence than females have. Because of this ideology, men occupy the highest levels of power and influence in greater numbers than women do. “Gender ideology is most effectively maintained when gender categories become embodied aspects of people s’ lives” (Fenstermaker and West, 2002). That is why sport is failing for the gender ideology. The men in our society are symbolized and presented with big mussels and the masculine
Women have been supplementary to men around the world through history. Woman always had to face man ideology and because of that she suffered from prejudice and discrimination. The influence of race and racial ideologies in sport has been and continues to be significant in the United States. (Brown et al., 2005). Women in sport have been always treated as she is coming from different planet, as she is below the standard, and she considered as minority group. Males have access to higher levels of privilege, power and influence than females have. Because of this ideology, men occupy the highest levels of power and influence in greater numbers than women do. “Gender ideology is most effectively maintained when gender categories become embodied aspects of people s’ lives” (Fenstermaker and West, 2002). That is why sport is failing for the gender ideology. The men in our society are symbolized and presented with big mussels and the masculine