Gender: Sport
As the name implies, this board explores the intersection of gender and sport.
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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
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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