Sport & Women FC Barcelona FC Barcelona has also a female soccer section since 2002. They have been the best team in Spain in the past few years. However, the history of FCB women’s team dates back to 1970 and is characterized by decades of lack of recognition and fight for existence.
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Sport & Women FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona has also a female soccer section since 2002. They have been the best team in Spain in the past few years.
However, the history of FCB women’s team dates back to 1970 and is characterized by decades of lack of recognition and fight for existence.
Sport & Women FC Barcelona
Sonia Bermúdez is the star player. She has been nicknamed “Lady Messi”
She makes a bit over 1000€ a month, 2222 times less than Messi.
Women in some Muslim countries have begun to compete in international competitions in recent years; however, they still face restrictions in their access to sport.
In 2012 Saudi Arabia sent two female athletes to the Olympic Games for the first time in the country’s history. It was the last nation along with Qatar and Brunei to prohibit women to participate.
Most of these women do not have the means and the preparation to compete so they usually are disqualified in the first rounds or end up injured.
Their participation is often symbolic but these women serve as role models for their communities.
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In 2010 Inés Sainz, a television reporter covering the NFL, claimed that she had been sexually harassed in the locker room by some New York Jets players and coaches.
The media controversy revolved around these two facts:
1. Inés Sainz as a woman has all the right to dress as she pleases.
2. Boys will be boys and you can’t get into a locker room like that and expect nothing to happen.
Andy Murray has been the first elite male player to appoint a female coach with no familial bonds.
Aside from the complete absence of female coaches in men’s tennis, when Murray hired Mauresmo in June 2014 there was only one top 50 player on the women’s tour who was coached by a woman.
In Spain, in 2014 Gala León became the national tennis team’s new manager.
Spanish players boycotted her appointment. They point out that she had no previous experience in the men’s tennis tour and none of the players knew her before.
2. Women in male
sports
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In 2013 Ruben Castro, Spanish soccer player, was accused by his fiancé of domestic violence on 4 different occasions.
In December 2014 the judge ruling the case admitted some of the charges and the player is pending trial.
In February 2015 his team’s fans chanted this song in a soccer match:
“go Ruben Castrogo Ruben CastroIt wasn’t your faultshe was a b**chyou did good”
"Cheerleading has a long tradition in the majority of American sports at both professional and amateur levels. Cheerleaders are part of American football culture from youth leagues to the NFL and are part of the game day experience for our fans.”
NFL head of communications David Tossell
4. Sexism
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Is cheerleading sexist?
"When the whole essence of your job is basically hanging out in a tiny bikini and a bandeau top, it kind of undercuts the rest of your argument that you are a well-rounded person,”
Joanne Gerstner, Professor of media & sports at the University of Michigan.
In 2012 the governing body of beach volleyball changed their regulation allowing women to wear shorts and t-shirt with sleeves.
Before that bikinis were the only permitted uniform
4. Sexism
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Beach volleyball in bikini
USA team member Jen Kessy responded to the new regulation:
“We're not uncomfortable in our bikinis. Growing up in southern California, that's what you wear from when you're a little kid to now in the summertime”
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Female tennis and physical appearance
Simona Halep is world’s number 3 in 2015.
In 2010 when she was 18 she reduced her breast to improve her tennis. Media have not change the topic of conversation since.