Category: Gender Inequality/Gender Discrimination

Introduction Gender inequality caused by the medias often unfair representation of womens sport is still a prominent issue in society today. Women are still underrepresented and oversexualised by the media in order to harness a wider range of viewers, (Trolan 2013). According to Harris (2007) historically women participated mainly in sports which were deemed elegant…

This all started from the beginning of the 19th Century when the United States began taking in immigrants fleeing from Europe due to the devastation of World War I. During this time Carl C. Brighama professor of psychology at Princeton University published A Study of American Intelligence (1923) in which he emphasized that the decline…