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Women’s roles in life

Women in sports have come a long way. A book written by Mariah Burton Nelson called “When women win too much” shows the struggle women go through to succeed in sports. In this book Mariah focuses on women by the name of Nancy Welch Williams.
Williams has coached softball, field hockey, and other
sports and has taught physical education at Shore Regional
High School in West Long Branch, New Jersey since 1970. Her
softball record (343-93) is the best in the nation.
Before all of this success Williams endured harassment
by mostly men. Williams quotes “The male sports teams would steal our equipment and also harass us after practice”. In this book is says how nobody took Williams seriously just because she was a girl. She was hired because they needed a coach overnight or the Regional high school would not have had a girl’s team. Williams was threatened to be fired for no reason and also threatened that violent acts would be performed if she did not quite.
Theses types of actions are known in our society today as wrong but back then men thought nothing of it to harass a women like she was an object. It was Women like Nancy Williams that took a stand and let the world know women were useful in sports also.
The roles of women in the bible are different from the roles women in today’s society. The role of a woman today is best described as equal. Women for the most part are treated with the same respect as men and get the same opportunities. Women are portrayed in the bible stories as minorities.
Women were used in two ways. They were used by men to seduce other men. They were used as sex symbols and nothing else. They were not looked at as people but as objects that can be used to suit the advantages of men.
The second way women were used was as birth givers. Women were seen only useful when it came to giving birth and taking care of the children when they got older. They were seen...