Female athletes have captured worldwide attention over the past few of years. With the creation of the WNBA for basketball and the WUSA for soccer, female athletes have been able to showcase their talents on primetime television.
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Furthermore, the physical appearance of female athletes is stigmatized. Women who do not conform to traditional feminine standards of beauty and grace are often considered to be imitating men.
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However, while negative stereotypes of female athletes persist, research has found little such conflict. In this study, questionnaire and interview data from male and female college athletes and nonathletes suggest some explanations for this.
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As increased scrutiny has developed regarding the health and well being of female athletes, ... The female athlete often becomes stereotyped as stronger than other females and not as vulnerable. In their humanness, alcohol and drugs can work for them in the same capacity it is used by others, to medicate their loneliness,
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In his recent book The Erotic in Sports, sports historian Allen Guttmann takes issue with criticisms of media representations of female athletes which make a rigid distinction between athleticism and eroticism.
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An academic directory and search engine ... The finding confirmed previous research that females receive less news coverage than males. Females were also more likely than male athletes to be portrayed in non-active sports poses. The longitudinal analysis indicated that the portrayal of female athletes may have actually worsened.
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It is often heard from male and female athletes that he or she prefers a male coach. Eighty percent of all coaches at the high school and college level are male. Only two percent of the coaches of men's teams and less than half of the coaches of women's teams are female.
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Despite the fact that there is an increased amount of women's sports being telecast, there are inherent differences in the way the sports commentators speak about the female athletes, ... Television has the potential to assist in the forming and reinforcing of gender schema that incorporate stereotyped ideas about gender roles,
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