Academy Sports + Outdoors
The history of sport is rife with sexism that has held back women. But the reports were false—women weren’t collapsing left and right. The top-three women actually broke the former women’s world record that day. Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve one’s physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.
- Media attention for women’s sport is severely lacking, with 95 percent of sports TV coverage in 2019 going to men, according to a USC/Purdue University study.
- Many professional sports have a significant pay gap, limiting the ability of women to focus solely on it as a