Women and men difference in sports

At the turn of the 10th century, changing economic gender roles threatened to undermine masculine privilege. Sports and success at particular sports were one means to ideology of masculinity. As a result sport, espicially collision of team sports, were defined as appropriate and in turn shaped ideoligies privileges.
There are several factors that limit womens access to sports experience. The first factor involves fewere opportunities for women and girl to participate in sports relative to men and boys. The second facotr is that males and females tend to be channeled into different types of leisure activities. The third factor is public cultural representations of sport tend to focus on women playing "female appropriate" sports and men playing "male appropriate" sports. Another factor is women sometimes are looked at as mannish or lesian.
Gendered bodies are male and not born and there are many gender expectations. Today most sports and success are still associated with different views. Sports raises mens social status and for women it is more ambiguous. In 1959 The American Softball Association league decided to innovate with a mixed couples league, and co-ed softball was officially recognized as a distinct variety of the game.