Inequality In Women's Sports

Female sports are difficulty to send message to the audiences and get the popularity because the media did not cover women’s sports recently. Also, the sports media industry is still dominated by men. According to Lapchick (2014) showed that 21 % of sports editors are women in 2014. Moreover According to the Zirin’s video “ Not just a game ” emphasized about the sports media industry only 1.9% in the women’s sports. Furthermore, there are inequality happening between men and women, such as media coverage and prize money. One female athlete and the team fought for these inequalities in the same era: Venus William and the U.S women’s soccer team.
The documentary “the 99ers” argues about how female soccer developed in the United States. Even though, female could get the physical education in the school because of Title ix, soccer is not popular sports for people. Also, women’s soccer does not have major competitive events such as World Cup, and Olympics. In the 1999, the women’s World Cup held in the United States, and the U.S players try to spread the culture of soccer in the U.S. When they won each game, the media and
Even though some female players wanted to fight inequality of prize money in tennis, they could not change the situation because they did not express to the media. Also the media thought this topic was newsworthy because they are not global icon, and not influential tennis players. Venus William is one of the dominant female tennis player and global icon. She showed dominant performance in the tennis game, and she expressed her opinion the outside of court. Because of her dominant performances, the media paid attention to Venus, and they want to interview to her. When she talks unfair of prize money issues in the tennis on the media. She sends to her message to mass of people, and possible to change the world; then, she finally fixes