Sports

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To my understanding, the main principle of the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 was that sex should not determine the legal rights of American men or women. Any state or federal laws that existed to discriminate against women became invalid after the amendment. Men and women should have the same opportunities in treatment. These opportunities include jobs, education, sports, etc.
I believe it is extremely important and necessary for men and women to have equal rights. Although the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 has helped, the problem has not diminished completely. As of right now, not everything is equal between men and women. Often salary caps are lower for women than men. The “Glass Elevator” theory is believed to still be in effect as well. What this means is that it is thought for promotions to occur more easily for men in businesses than for women. With matters like these occurring day in and day out, Equal Rights between men and women still have a bit to go before life can truly be equal between them.
It can be said however, that women do have more equal rights in our society than before. For example, there are NCAA laws for women sports. Title IX is an NCAA law that, I think, states that there should be equal number of women athletes to men athletes at each institution. Scholarship ratios should be equal for men and women athletics. In most schools, there are more women sports than men sports and I believe the following is why: because of college institutions with football programs. Football teams, many times, carry up to 80-90 football players, most of them of which are there on athletic aid (scholarships). Since scholarships are to be equal for men and women athletes, and since women’s football does not exist, all those scholarships have to be accounted for in other women’s sports to equal the amount of scholarships offered to men sports. So basically, football eats up most of the male sport’s ath...