Discrimination Against Women In College Sports

Throughout many centuries, women have been treated like an object. Women at one time didn’t have rights, and just lived in the shadow of men. But with each new generation comes a new generation of women who break the statuesque. In today’s society, women are treated almost as equal as men, yet discrimination still goes on during workforce, college, and even college athletics. Long-standing discrimination against women in college athletics must come to an end. Even though men are said to be much stronger than women, women have become more athletic and competitive than ever before. Women are now hitting the gym, and building muscle like men. Women also compete in body builder competitions and most often win. Women are not so small in today’s society; they are breaking away from the image of being tiny and having no muscle mass whatsoever. There are a lot of women that are bigger than the average man, and of course men don’t like that idea. Women no longer need to help of a man to do the things she wants to do; and men are becoming more jealous of the idea that women are now at the same level of athletics. Women in college are offered the same types of sports as men, meaning they do the same types of …show more content…
They often train years and years to play for a sport in college. They go through the same training men do just to be accepted into a college athletic program. Why discriminate against women when they have done the same work as men? And let’s not also forget that playing for a college team is difficult, it takes a lot of effort and dedication that many women all over the world have shown. Men athletes still discriminate against women even when they may have worked harder to get to where they are. Women in college play to prove that they can exceed in the sport they do, and also to play for themselves because they know how good they are and how much they can succeed in the