The number of people who watch men’s sports has consistently surpassed those of women since sports broadcasting was possible.
Tag: gender equality
CSULB hosts ‘Take Back the Night’
A small but mighty congregation commanded the attention of the campus Wednesday with loud chants and neon signs as they marched across campus to Take Back the Night. The international event has been fighting for equality and raising awareness of sexual harassment since 1976. This year’s annual event was hosted[Read More…]
CSULB celebrates women’s rights with Title IX film screening
Just one year after the Title IX legislation passed, nearly 295,000 women were welcomed into the world of sports, and as of 2011, over 3 million women were participating in sports, both in high school and college. A screening of the film “Sporting Chance: The Lasting Legacy of Title IX”[Read More…]
Flaunt your sanitary napkins for women’s equality
A German artist named Elonë Kastratia slapped period pads on traffic signs throughout Karlsruhe, Germany. “Imagine if men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods,” she wrote across some of the sanitary napkins. Kastratia first saw the message tweeted by user cutequeer96 in September 2014, MTV reported,[Read More…]