Gender: Sport
Collection by The Sociological Cinema
As the name implies, this board explores the intersection of gender and sport.
Sue Bird vs. LeBron James
Male vs. Female Sport: Viewing Habits, 2018
Source: Insure4Sport *respondents were from the U.K.
Now THIS Is What I Call A Victory For Women
Women in the Olympics for the first time, every country competing has a female athlete. [click on this image to find a short analysis of a recent P advertisement, which promotes fairly narrow media representations of mothers and motherhood. The ad takes viewers through a dramatization of several Olympic athletes' upbringing]
The Gender Prize Gap in (UK) Sport, 2018
On average, male footballers receive £21.5 million more in prize money than female footballers – £22 million and £561,230 respectively. To put this into perspective, the prize money received by an average male footballer is nearly 40 times higher than his female counterpart Source: Insure4Sport
Janis Rinehart (foreground), Paula Walter (middle), and Jeanne Ellison (now Jeanne Ellison Biggs, right) became the first female track athletes from the U.S. to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated. They were part of the Texas Track Club, a small group of high school-and college-aged female sprinters based in Abilene, Texas, April 1964. Photo credit: Sports Illustrated
This is significant. We don't put restrictions on height, aerobic capacity, metabolism or other physical variations between Olympic athletes. Why is testosterone the biological feature we measure and police? ~ @sallyrugg
"Siri: Show me fragile masculinity" - Kiké Hernandez, who is 5-foot-11, stands on a bucket to talk to Kelli Tennant (6-1 plus heels) during a postgame interview. Photo credit: Spectrum SportsNet LA.
Why is @ussoccer so terrible? 330 million people. Every kid plays soccer. And we can't even qualify for the World Cup? Appalling. ~ @JeffreyToobin The women have won three times. ~ @nancyleong