Stand Up and Shout Out
Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports
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Publisher Description
Today, women have greater opportunities to participate in sport than ever before, particularly due to the passage of Title IX in 1972. Yet, despite all this growth, women still struggle to hold leadership positions, become coaches of both girls and boys teams, receive equal pay, and get even adequate coverage in the media.
In Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equality in Sports, Joan Steidinger explores the three crucial areas in sport that remain huge concerns for women: leadership, money, and media. Steidinger looks at the number of ways in which women experience vast inequalities by examining topics such as the politics of sport, sexual assault, the #MeToo movement, pay equity, women in coaching positions, and the experiences of women of color and LGBTQ athletes. Interviews with leading authorities in the field and prominent female athletes are interwoven throughout to add both expert and personal perspectives to the conversation.
Stand Up and Shout Out does more than justinform readers about these important issues; its purpose is to create enlightened discussions around the unequal treatment of women and present readers with “action steps” so we can all become active contributors toward improving this situation. This is an ideal time to fight for women’s equality in sport, as it draws attention to the growing need for advocacy for girls and women around the world in all areas of life.
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Sports psychologist Steidinger (Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete) attempts to provide a useful introduction to the challenges women athletes still face but falters in this poorly organized volume. Steidinger presents anecdotes of disrespect towards women, such as a star NFL player's demeaning comments to a female journalist (Steidinger lists many such incidents), along with statistics on the underrepresentation of women coaches, neither of which provide new information or arguments. The action steps at the end of each chapter are often superficial ("Teach girls to speak up and shout out for what they believe in"; LGBTQ athletes are encouraged to "Be proud of who you are!"). And having praised some male athletes for their sensitivity to the issue, Steidinger argues that those same athletes should be engaged "in endorsing the value of women's sports," which they are already doing. Steidinger is a passionate advocate for her cause, but even those in her camp will come away unenlightened and without a clear path forward.
