After this semester, I have learned a lot that despite the
passage of Title IX and other gender equality campaigns, we still have a long
way to go to achieve gender equality in sports. Before taking this class, I
only knew about women being in positions in sports where they were
discriminated against and treated unfairly. I learned that gender inequality
not only exists in women’s sports, but also in men’s sports. For example, Keeling
Pilaro, a boy who was playing on a field hockey team, was banned from playing
because he was “too good” to play with girls. This raised a controversy. If
women can play with men to achieve gender equality, does it achieve gender
equality to let men play with women?
Writing blogs and comments are new to me because I have
never done these before. However, writing blog entries and comments has helped
me to see various opinions from other students and they absolutely have affected
my thinking on gender. After reading other’s blogs, I could also see agreements
on the topics and disagreements. There are no right or wrong answers,
therefore, each comment itself is valuable to see and think deeply about.
Overall, this class is useful for my career because sports
are the most popular way to spread words to the public, and gender is always a
hot topic to discuss. Gender inequality is a serious problem like racial
discrimination. In my future career, I will deal with both males and females.
In order to help achieve gender equality in sports and not make mistakes on
this issue, studying this subject will definitely be helpful in my future
career.
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