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Women in Sports

Date: Sep 14 2007

Intro

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The road to the playing field has been a long one for women. For a long time, women weren’t allowed to play sports at all. Then, for a time, women were allowed to play but had to wear dresses and skirts even while running!

Only since a new law in the late 1970s gave more money to women’s sports in schools have women athletes been given a fair shake in the US. Now lots of sports fans find it just as fun to watch women compete as men.

Dialog

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Kevin

Devan

Kevin: So you know, I did my undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and that’s where hockey is huge, and the women’s hockey team is amazing.

Devan: Really? I didn’t even know they had women’s hockey.

Kevin: It’s big time...women’s hockey…

Devan: Like professional?

Kevin: Like borderline professional. I mean, they’re really amazing. And with Title IX, I don’t know if you know that…

Devan: Uh-uh.

Kevin: That’s like for…It requires equal dollar amounts given to collegiate and high school female sports as well as male sports.

Devan: That’s awesome.

Kevin: So there’s an equal number of scholarships available to women as there are to men. It’s really brought up the level of women’s sports. It’s amazing. Like in the hockey team. You see one of their games and they’re so much fun, you know?

Devan: Do you think that women’s sports will catch on?

Kevin: I mean, I would like to see the WNBA be as big as the NBA, but I don’t know, the men’s has been around for a long time. But you know, the women in tennis…Women’s tennis is as popular as men’s tennis and it has been for a long time.

Devan: Well, that’s ‘cause Anna Kournikova is a babe.

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Discussion

The colder parts of the United States are really into hockey. Kevin went to school in Minnesota, one of coldest places in the country, so naturally he went to some hockey games.

But interestingly, he went to women’s hockey games. Devan didn’t even know that women had hockey teams. Kevin explains that since the passage of Title IX (now known as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act to honor the woman who wrote it), women’s sports teams have the same funding as men’s sports teams.

But will women’s sports ever be as popular as men’s? They’ve got a long way to go, and men’s sports have a head start. But in some places such as tennis, the sexes get equal attention. Devan jokes that this is only because a particular Russian tennis player is really beautiful.

Have you ever gone to see women compete? Do women play sports where you live?

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Nex

Russian Federation

I find women's sports is very interesting. I mean tennis and biathlon.

HUKUMDAR_01

Åland Islands

hello

portia45

China

I like tennis very much ,though I'm low-level.^_

dfenghappy

China

me too . I love yaoming ,kobe and so on.

sherryleio

China

Women in China not only play sports, they are even better than men in some sports.

ime_friendly

Pakistan

wow

thats realy great

like the discussion

FeiFei

China

I an very proud for women sports. But some years ago,women are not allowed to do something,it is unfair for women.With the world sulture change and something will be fair shake.Then women are allowed to attend sports. They are playing more and more role in the field of sportd. In real life they are not the role of housemaker,child-carer,or else.They can support the half heaven.

runyang

China

Presently,the women sport item are more and more popular,many who took care baby yestoday now jion in all kinds of sports,we men have no right to claim what should women do or not,just belong their hobby.

sbp68142071

China

I like The NBA very much.

explorer143

Pakistan

yeah, here in our country women have a good chance to play sports, they play variety of games…

moise

Senegal

i m very proud for women sport , i ador u

_Jasmine_

Poland

In my country people like very much woman in sports. For example Agnieszka Radwanska the most famous polish tenis player. She have just won with Szarapowa. She is so young and she will be the best soon. And such as polish volleyball team – they are good and pretty. Everybody likes them :) We like girls teams in sport very very much

minhchauna

Angola

Im really like this lesson, because I'm a women, and I want that will have equality around the world, especial in sport, job…and more.

Christoph07

Germany

Yeah I had luck and could watch the worldchampionship in soccer for women in China at tv even. And after some minutes ends the match England vs. Germany. It was a nice and exciting game. I hope our girls can defense her title of worldchampion at 30th september.

guimei

China

I think the women can do as well as a men .But some yeas ago ,women don't be allove to do something. it isn't fair for women,sometimes women are better than men.

pedro cruz

Brazil

Women practicing sports are a work of art, aren't they? So, a fair shake in sports is far more than necessary, it is an improvement for our society.

Maplewei

China

yeah,I heard that women who want to play tennis must wear dresses that is because of it.

phuongngoc

Viet Nam

i have read it, but i don't know jockey is what sports. If you read "Women in Sports", pleas help me to understand this sprorts. Thank you

brandon_vdh

Viet Nam

I love the lesson today because i love playing tennis. Moreover I usually have late nights for watching tennis matches, specially women single.

Who haves the same taste?

christina 1129

China

Yeah, nowadays, women is playing a more and more role in the the field of sports, even in the real life and society. That shows a great phenomena to the posisition of women, it is equeal to men. Women is not the role of housemaker, child-carer, or else. they are the one who can support the half heaven. Go ahead, women, well done.