Impact on Gender Roles in Society Through Sports

How does sports affect the gender roles of society? This is an important question because sports are such a large part of daily life in America for both men and women. It is also important because the gender roles of men and women and what they are expected to do has been changing drastically in the modern world. This is easily shown in the photograph comparison of women's field hockey at Minnesota State University in the 60's and this modern one of the women's basketball team for DePaul University.

This question will be further answered through the research of studies conducted by psychologists and sociologists about this specific topic.