Bias In The WNBA
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Beginning in the 1890's the newly-invented game of basketball
quickly became the most popular women's sport. It served as a catalyst
for female physical educators, allowing them to have greater control over
women's collegiate athletic experiences. Female physical educators
modified the game so as ....
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.... Indianapolis 500. (Woodlum, Janet. 1992) This ramatic rise in
attention to women's sports has led to rapid development of talented female
athletes. (Widenhaus, Kevin. 1995) But biases are still prevalent in
women's sports today such as women's basketball. One of the major areas
of such biases are in the salaries of the women in the WNBA and the men in
the NBA. There is not the turnout of fans for the women's basketball
games as there are for the men's games which has a lot to do with i ....
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