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With the fruition
of gender roles over time, many male subject sports organizations have decided
to open up women’s divisions. Many of the women’s divisions are being created
due to how perceptions of women have begun to change in our society and the
country as a whole, as women today have started to develop more interest and
independence in relation to sports.
Individual outstanding
women’s division that has been created in recent years in Ghana is the football
division. Throughout the history of the football, most of the attention is
usually focused on the male football, and hardly any coverage is given to the
women football in the country.
However, with the change in gender roles in
our society, many female in the country have started to view themselves in
different sports disciplinarians. Even though women sports have become more
prominent in our society, I wonder how and when these women get their
allowance.
It hurts me
to see the great sports women up there doing marvelous but do not get motivation,
supports and empowerment from the heads of their disciplinarians while
playing. Specially, the football divisions do face the non-payment of
qualification bonuses and other financial commitments from the GFA. There have
been instance some of the women are not being paid at all, others thirty
percent (30%) of it. There have a number of times when the Black Queens and the
Black Princesses do not get access to their allowance on time but you hardly
find that in the Blackstars, Blackmeteors, and Blacksatellites.
The development
of gender roles in our society has shown a significant change in how women are
represented in sports. The growth of women’s sports has been shown by the
creation of various professional sports leagues for women include the national
women championship league (NWCL), WNBA, WHL in the country.
Because of the change of equal representation
in women’s sports, more female have begun to participate in sports compared to those
of the past. The large increase of female participation in sports seems to be
related to the rapid growth of many professional women’s sports leagues and
also women have started to completely change how they are viewed in the sports
world by participating in male subjected sports. This shows how women have
considerably changed how they are viewed in the sporting world.
The biggest
disparities in prize money are usually found in football. It is, however,
disappointing that in this twenty-first century women still find themselves having to battle
for equal reward in elite sports. Whereas the men are mostly reward seventy
percent of prize money than the women. I
will like to encourage that a number of sports heads in the country who have
taken the positive step towards prize money parity, and this shows that the
momentum currently building behind women's sport is having an impact.
I think that sports heads also have to change
their towards professional women’s sports by being sense of balance and fairness
because women’s sport is very exciting.
