Throughout this paper I will explore the issues of women, athletics, stereotyping, and opportunities that are available to females in the arena of athletics. Indeed, racism and sexism continue to permeate American society and in its institutions. There have been a number of laws passed to alleviate these entrenched values, Affirmative Action being the most notable. Nevertheless, females in America continue to be viewed as the “weaker sex”, and inevitably this mentality continues to impact …showed first 75 words of 1183 total…

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