Raising Empowered Daughters by Mike Adamick

Author:Mike Adamick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

TRAWICK-SMITH FOUND SOMETHING else interesting in the center’s studies on toys and what appeals the most to the greatest number of kids. It will hopefully give you some guidance on how to go from here.

Basic, he says, is better. “These toys are relatively open-ended, so children can use them in multiple ways.”

—Chapter 10—

THROW LIKE A GIRL

Although boys and girls play sports in roughly equal numbers, culturally, sports are still very much a “man’s game.”

“MOUNTAINS,” SHE SAID, shaking her head. “There are literally more pictures of mountains than women.”

She paused. Tilted her head. Chuckled morosely.

“Well, it is a nice mountain.”

We were flipping through the sports pages, hoping to find some news about that day’s upcoming US women’s soccer match.

Nothing.

In fact, there was barely a mention of any female athletes at all.

For any sport.

As an impromptu test of equality in coverage, we quickly added up all the photos. Out of seventeen total, there were more images of mountains (one) than female athletes (zero).

Sure, sports have long been promoted as the “domain” of men, the proverbial man cave of supposedly strong men who nevertheless have childlike fits of exasperation at the idea of “sharing” fields or coverage with women.

But come on, man.

Zero?

Not one fucking photo of a female athlete?

Unfortunately, it wasn’t an aberration.

My daughter knows full well my disdain for our local paper’s abhorrently sexist sports page. Its lack of coverage of women athletes is all at once glaringly obvious and disgusting—but also par for the course when it comes to national coverage of athletes who happen to be women.

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