In sports, are both men and women treated equally? Although there were not as many sports for women years ago, now there are more sports in which women can compete. Currently, women are able to compete in as many sports in which men also compete. Although women are able to compete in sports, I still feel that they are not treated equally as athletes as men. Just recently has a rule been made that in college and high school sports there has to be an equal number of men's sports as there are women's sports. Most often, when some female plays some sport people do not treat her as they would if she did not play sports.
             Discrimination against women has long been an aspect of American sports, and it took the weight of national law to begin to set the situation straight. Although there have always been superb women athletes, women who competed were viewed, for many years, as being, at the very least, socially inept or incompetent, if not guilty of a variety of moral turpitudes (Berlow, 41). A change of women's role in sports began in World War II. Society began to accept a women's right to go to work and earn a living, and it also gave us a view of women entitled and welcomed to participate in sports both for pleasure and for competition (Berlow, 41). If you attend a Little League game today, you are likely to see some excellent young girl players. And, in most cases, no one watching or playing thinks anything of it because today girls are entitled to play as boys are. However, as recently as 1972, girls were prohibited from playing in Little League as well as other sports (Berlow, 41). !
             What enabled girls to begin to play sports was a spate of lawsuits against leagues that would not allow girls to play. When the national organization finally allowed girls to play, many all male teams threatened to boycott the league (Berlow, 41).
             As for women competing in sports in college, it was not until 1972
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