Women Are Still Second Best
The only thing grand about Wimbledon, is the slam in the face is serves up to the women in the tournament. Although we are moving ever closer to true gender equality, sexual discrimination is still rampant in our society. We are all dominated by ideas of hegemonic masculinity, that is, that males must be competitive, aggressive, suppress their emotion and hold overall power. This is not only reflected in our general society, but in sport as well, particularly professional tennis. Sport is not a separate entity, but an integral part of society and also underpinned by the same hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity as society, which these days can loosely be classified as sexual discrimination. Women are disadvantaged in many ways, but perhaps the three most influential areas in both sport and society are wage/prize money differentials, lack of power and managerial positions and marketing/sexual exploitation. This analytical exposition will focus primarily on the 3 aforementioned areas of female disadvantage, clearly highlighting the trends and similarities between the treatment of women in society and women in professional tennis. The male/female wage differential has always exist
Popular culture has become increasingly sexualized, Mary Pipher, author of 'Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls' has noticed. The Wimbledon differential has always remained relatively constant, until 2002 when it reach an all time high of $56 000 (Chittenden, M. 2003) So where money is concerned, women do indeed come off second best, not only in sport but in life. 2003), however that argument is not valid in this day and age. Wimbledon is the only major grand slam tournament which allocated noticeably uneven amounts of prize money to its male and female champions. In the second, four women with vacant eyes gyrated in low cut dresses and high boots, their breast and bottoms photographed more frequently than their faces. This clearly indicates that women are in fact treated the same way in both sport and general society. ed and found not only in the workplace, but is reflected in other areas of society such as sport, particularly professional tennis. Although numbers of men and women in the workforce are relatively even, salaries are definitely not. It seems unthinkable that gender discrimination would publicly occur, however every year Wimbledon serves up a slam in the face to its female competitors for all to see, yet we accept this as the norm. Lindsay Davenport, fellow high profile tennis player states, after a loss to Mauresmo, "I thought I was playing a guy.
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