Women need Recognition

 

 

             We live in a world today full of sports and athletics. When you have a life like mine, where your life revolves around sports, it gets kind of rough when every men’s sport gets more recognition than a woman’s. An article from CNN, ‘Women’s athletics a battle for respect,’ states, “Top player Tina Charles says there is an unfair attitude toward women's sports in the United States.” I agree with this statement, and it has become obvious throughout the years. When you turn on ESPN or any other sports network to watch a game, 9 times out of 10, it will be some sort of men’s sport on. The article also says, “Leslie says the women's league is growing, "but it would be nice to get more fans supporting the WNBA and more women supporting women in sports." Not only women, but kids and men need to support women in their sports as well. They just need more people supporting them to get them out there and known.

                Like I said before, men’s sports cover the TV channels, whether it’s college or professional. In the article Tina Charles says, “I don't think we get a lot of media coverage the way that I wish we could.” This is so true. Women’s athletics deserve just enough air-time as the men’s games do. Women work just as hard, if not harder at what they do than the men do. Charles also states, “...how hard we play, how competitive we are, just to show that there is another avenue for girls, another outlet for girls." Girls and women need to be recognized for what they do in the athletic world. A lot of people assume girls to be non-athletic and all into shopping and things like that. Although, there are millions of women athletes out there that want to show the world what they can do.