my opinion women have unfairly been neglected and oppressed in sports just as they have been in many other aspects of life such as education, politics, and work. Hence, using a liberal feminist approach will help to address gender based oppression in sports and can provide motivation for women striving for similar goals in other areas. Women in the sports domain are striving to achieve equality in media coverage, status and salary; the following paper will focus on several inequalities that women have been facing.
             Women are challenging the sexual exploitation that their bodies receive in the media coverage so they can be recognized as athletes as opposed to sex symbols. Women's abilities to play sports have been second-rate to men categorizing their status secondary to men. In the following paper, I will use tennis player, Anna Kournikova as the main example, but will include other athletes as well. I will argue that such stereotypes are normalized through the general media and women are socially constructed into playing sex-role stereotype sports that perpetuate the "masculine man" vs. the "fragile female" stereotype in order to maintain a male hierarchy domination. Moreover, I will also discuss disparity in salary as it relates to women in sports.
             Anna Kournikova, the 21-year-old tennis player is an example of a female athlete who receives attention not for her capability to play, but simply for her appearance. Her status as an athlete is more strongly influenced by her appearance as opposed to her ability to play tennis. This sort of attention takes away from the athleticism of sport because it directs attention to sexual appearance as oppose to the game. Moreover, these sexual exploitations contribute to the sexual oppression that female athletes experience and prevents female sports from being taken as seriously as men's sports.
             The sexual attention athletes receive from the general ...