KINE 1000 Midterm: kine1000 assign 2- annotated bibliogrpahy

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Analyzing the grounds for awarding unequal prize money to male and female athletes in sporting competitions. The author presents and discusses numerous examples to support his thesis that gender inequality still remains in athletics in the 21st century. He uses examples such as female athletes receive significantly less attention from media then male athletes, less total income in spent on female athletes then on male athletes and females continue to participate less then their male counterparts. This impression the author argues helps explain the issues of justice and fairness among males and female athletes in sporting competitions. This source is useful to my project because it illuminates how sports are socially constructed and. I hope to use simons examples and analyses to illustrate that the unequal prize awarded to males and females in sporting competitions is linked to gender inequality. Issues in the history and sociology of women"s sport (1st ed. , pp.