Sports in American Society
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Assignment instructions SOC247c:
Please
answer the following questions using Billie Jean King (tennis), Jackie Robinson
(baseball), Arthur Ashe, Jr. (tennis), and Muhammad Ali (boxing) as examples.
• Analyze
one case study of a famous athlete, coach, or owner that demonstrates the
concept of intersectionality i.e. Jackie Robinson (baseball).
• Explain what might be done to alleviate the incredible racial and gender
disparity between the team owners and coaches of professional and collegiate
sports, and those who play such sports i.e. Billie Jean King (tennis). Be
specific in your response.
• Finally, both the Cochrane interview with Billie Jean King and the US
Women’s National Soccer team lawsuit illustrate that equal pay for gender
different athletes is an ongoing problem. In this, do you find that sport
is an institution apart from the broader US society, or roughly like the gender
pay inequity found in US society?


Solution
Sports in American Society
Analyze one case study of a famous
athlete, coach, or owner that demonstrates the concept of intersectionality,
i.e., Jackie Robinson (baseball).
Sixty
years ago, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in the
major leagues in the United States. Her action ended the decades-long history
of baseball intersectionality against minorities. It is not uncommon for a
newspaper to run a feature item on the remarkable increase of female athletes
and then pose an absurd question. This case proves that women's athletic
prowess will never catch up to men (Alexander, 2015). When it comes to sports,
the idea that women can compete with and against males is a hot-button issue.
For the most part, everyone is aware of or at least acknowledges the reality
that men are typically bigger, stronger, and faster than women. People may one
day see sex segregation in the same light as intersectionality due to recent
cultural trends. Even though white supremacist views are no longer accepted in
mainstream society, many white people continue to believe that people of their
race are morally and intellectually superior to people of other races
(Gietschier, 2012). Feminists have had some success in lessening gender
disparities, even though they have to cope with many of the legal hurdles that
hinder women from contributing fully to society. And in the more contemporary
postmodern queer feminist study, the naturalness of sexual dimorphism has been
attacked head-on with a lot of power being put into it.
Explain what might be done to
alleviate the incredible racial and gender disparity between professional and
collegiate sports team owners and coaches, and those who play such sports,
i.e., Billie Jean King (tennis). Be specific in your response.
For
decades, Billie Jean King had fought relentlessly for women's equality in
sports. During the 1960s and early 1970s, she worked tirelessly to ensure that
women's participation in sports was equal to that of males. In 1972, she
changed her focus to promoting Title IX (Olsen & Namara, 2021). Thus, the
adoption of Title IX will forbid sex discrimination in all federally sponsored
school programs. It was guts and leadership that Billie Jean King demonstrated
when she went to Capitol Hill to advocate for Title IX. She was able to pull it
off because she presented herself confidently and forcefully. Even in professional
sports, Title IX's requirements show their value. Young women have more
opportunities to make a profession out of their sport, particularly in the WNBA
(Ware, 2011). There is also an increase in undergraduate and professional
coaching possibilities. There is currently only one law in the United States
that provides some degree of equality for women, and Billie Jean King was
instrumental in creating the Women's Sports Foundation to defend this
legislation.
Finally, the Cochrane interview
with Billie Jean King and the US Women's National Soccer team lawsuit
illustrates that equal pay for gender different athletes is an ongoing problem.
In this, do you find that sport is an institution apart from the broader US
society, or roughly like the gender pay inequity found in US society?
The
average earnings of the US Women's National Soccer team and that of men are
vastly different. Thus, I find that sport is roughly like the gender pay
inequity in US society. For instance, NBA players are paid far more than those
in the women's professional basketball league, part of the National Basketball
Association (Culvin et al., 2021). For the finest male players, a yearly salary
and endorsements of millions are not uncommon. The minimum compensation in the
men's league is significantly more than the maximum earnings in the WNBA. Athletes
engaging in sports in the United States are paid the most. Thus, the highest
WNBA salaries were considerably lower than NBA salaries (Ware, 2011). While the
WNBA may be willing to pay females the maximum amount, the most prominent and
well-compensated players in the WNBA are paid less than six figures. In addition,
the Women's National Basketball Association receives far fewer awards and major
honors than the men's league.
References
Alexander, L. D. (2015). The Jackie Robinson
story vs. the court-martial of Jackie Robinson vs. 42: Hollywood's
representations of Jackie Robinson's legacy. NINE: A Journal of
Baseball History and Culture, 24(1-2), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2015.0034
Culvin, A., Bowes, A., Carrick, S., &
Pope, S. (2021). The price of success: Equal pay and the US women’s
national soccer team. Soccer & Society, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2021.1977280
Gietschier, S. P. (2012). Slugging and snubbing:
Hugh Casey, Ernest Hemingway, and Jackie Robinson—A baseball mystery. NINE:
A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, 21(1),
12-46. https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2012.0053
Olsen, C., & Namara, S. M. (2021).
undefined. Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering,
101-124. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018179-8
Ware, S. (2011). Game, set, match. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807877999_ware
Ware, S. (2011). The incomplete revolution. Game,
Set, Match, 207-214. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807877999_ware.11



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