How Gender Bias Continues To Distort Our Perception of Women

<p>Women&rsquo;s sports just aren&rsquo;t as&nbsp;<em>entertaining</em>&nbsp;as men&rsquo;s.</p> <p>Or at least that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s commonly said to justify a pay and&nbsp;<a href="https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230104165710/https:/en.unesco.org/themes/gender-equality-sports-media" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">media coverage gap</a>&nbsp;between the two. And it&rsquo;s physical differences and prejudices about women&rsquo;s athletic inferiority that are often used to sustain the sexist assertion that women&rsquo;s sports are boring or slow.</p> <p>Yet we never hear anything similar being uttered about, say, the performance of boxers from different weight classes, do we?</p> <p>Still, is that even&nbsp;<em>true</em>?</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/how-gender-bias-continues-to-distort-our-perception-of-women-4ee0affb919f"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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