Women in Professional Sports

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The writer explores how female athletes have overcome many barriers and still have many more ahead of them. The writer discusses that by competing in professional sports, female athletes challenge beliefs, such as that sports are just for males. The writer suggests that perhaps due to the barriers that women encounter in this field, they should be encouraged to compete in professional sports. In this paper, the writer discusses how the female athletes are making a place for themselves in a traditional male dominated arena.

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"Women in professional sports encounter many obstacles in their road to participation. They must overcome the lack of institutional support and advocacy, gender bias and discrimination, the idea that sports are for males and males only and images of femininity and sexuality. Yet, despite and perhaps because of these barriers, women should be encouraged to compete in professional sports. Already current research has re-evaluated some of these beliefs. For example, it has shown that physical differences, one of the primary objections to female participation in ... "

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