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Students should be required to play sports. - Coggle Diagram
Students should be required to play sports.
Leadership
Ted Talk: "82% of female senior executives played some sort of organized sport when they were young"
“‘We know that when you get women into leadership positions in any organisation, but particularly in sport, they change the culture in a way that helps to address gender-based violence.’"
BBC
“94 percent of the women currently with C-suite jobs in the U.S. played competitive sports.”
The Atlantic
Winning mindset
Serena: Paragraph 12
Perseverance
Psych benefits: Paragraph 17
E-sports: Paragraph 17
Athletes learn to persevere and have positive attitudes through sports
Peak Sports
Social connections
(could be connected to mental health)
Hoops
Picture: 2, 3, 9, 11, 12
"The team environment provides social support and a forum for girls to share their concerns and experiences, including those related to gender-based violence"
Women Win
Breaking stereotypes/discrimination
Hoops
Pictures 2, 3, 9, 11, 12
E-sports: Paragraph 26, 36
“Sport is a social and cultural activity in which social constructions of masculinity and femininity play a key role.”
Council of Europe
“When girls participate in sport, they challenge the core of GBV [gender-based violence] – inequity, patriarchy, and rigid gender roles.”
Women Win
Mental and physical health
Empowering Women: Infograhpic on first page
Psych benefits
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 15
“As your waistline shrinks and your strength and stamina increase, your self-image will improve. You'll earn a sense of mastery and control, of pride and self-confidence.”
Harvard Health
“A girl who feels good about herself physically tends to present herself as a socially strong person”
Counseling
"Exercise training is effective at decreasing sleep complaints and insomnia.”
NCBI
“If the players believe that everyone contributes to the team’s success and feel as though they are being treated fairly, then each player’s athletic ability and psychological stamina are maximized”
Counseling
Wendy Suzuki: stopping neurodegenerative diseases
Finding your identity
Empowering Women: Paragraph 2
E-sports: Paragraph 26, 27, 29
Becoming more mature/more responsible
Empowering Women: Paragraph 4
E-sports: Paragraph 21, 22, 38
“It teaches them to cooperate, to be less selfish, and to listen to other children”
Health Direct
Sports teaches athletes discipline, hard work, sacrifice, loss
Opro Mouth Guards
Sports teaches better time management and organization because you have so many activities
Children's Medical Group
Inequality within sports
Empowering Women
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 9
Ted Talk
"Girls make up 57% of the college population, but only 43% of sporting opportunities are given to them"
"The minimum NBA player salary is almost 5 times higher than the maximum WNBA player salary"
“Women make up 40% of sportspeople, however as of 2020 they continue to only receive 4% of the total sports media coverage in print and broadcast is devoted to them”
Athlete Assessments
Athletes as role models
Empowering Women: Paragraph 15
Serena: Paragraph 21
TED Talk: Billie Jean King and Serena Williams can be seen as role models to inspire young girls
“Young girls can learn from their mentor’s experiences and make more informed choices”
SheThePeople
“A girl needs to see confidence, leadership and accomplishment in other women in order to envision herself with those qualities”
Women Win
Counterargument
students can feel a lot of pressure from playing sports
not all school sports have to be competitive (ex. karate, yoga, etc.)
Falling grades because of bad time management
Student athletes have to have a minimum GPA
Teamwork
Empowering women: Paragraph 2
E-sports: Paragraph 23
"[Sports] teaches women and girls the values of teamwork, self-reliance and resilience”
UN Women
Benefits of sports
E-sports: Paragraph 5
Female empowerment
“[Sport] is a powerful tool to convey important messages in a positive and celebratory environment – often to mass audiences”
UN Women
“10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation generates a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point rise in female labor force participation.”
National Bureau of Economic Research