Toko Sepatu, Sports & Lifestyle #1
None of this is meant to disparage the phenomenal women athletes at the top of their game. But if we stopped dividing sport by sex, elite women’s sport as we know it could cease to exist. We might miss out on Megan Rapinoe at the World Cup or the spectacle of Sydney McLaughlin effortlessly gliding over hurdle after hurdle. Acknowledging the performance differential should encourage us to do everything possible to make sure female athletes can keep competing at these levels. We take a look at some of the key figures in women’s sports history in Philly and how things have changed in the 50 years since Title IX was signed into law.
Yet even in sports where sexist sociological barriers have been lowered, a performance gap can persist. First, most of the best research is on sports that are easily quantifiable. For example, there’s no way to directly compare …