KIN 2501 : Gender And Sports Outline
15 Mar 2019
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Hootie johnson (chairman of augusta national golf club) would not give in to request-own timetable : strong women seen as a threat: Interferes with achieving gender equity: women play sports, but they are not as good as men and people want to see the best , women play football, but they don"t hit as hard as men do. Go girl, go: test question: there was a big event in 1973 in astrodome, exhibition between bjk (age 29) and br (he was probably late 50 early 60), dubbed battle of sexes. He played up a misogynist role, bjk played the obvious feminist role. Huge crowd, bjk won (duh); so many people watching it raised social awareness of women in sports. Title ix timeline: 1972: ncaa argues that athletics be excluded from the law. 3: 1984: opponents to title ix lobbied president reagan to overturn the law; grove city.
