Should Men and Women Play Sports in the Same League?
Is There a Better Way to Separate Sports? As you are probably aware, sports are notoriously split by the men's league and the women's league. But why is that? Sports are divided by the assumed natural differences between men and women. Women are seen as the inherently weaker sex. This concept gained traction back in the eighteenth century. Even with the odds stacked against them, women competed in sports through the nineteenth century. That was until a ban was initiated on women's football. People in the 1920's believed women were unsuitable for the physicality of the sport. This banned last until 1970s. Even though women were allowed to play other sports, they were required to go through a "femininity test". Participants had to undergo an inspection of their external sexual organs. This system was put in place so women with more "masculine" traits couldn't play in women's sports. Though our world has evolved from the nineteenth c...