what do u think about women allowed to participate with men in all the games they can.............?

Question

It will b really good in participating games like.....chess,golf,tennis,ping-pong,swimming, and so on........
and will be only one champion ........

Answer 1

The thing to realise is that women have had to fight to be allowed to participate in sports,

In Ancient Greece, women were not allowed to take part in the Olympics, and were forbidden to watch them, too (on pain of death).

When Baron Pierre de Courbertin revived the Olympics in 1896 he decreed that the role for women was to admire the atheticism of the male athlete and there were no women's events in the first Olympics.

Under his baleful influence, as the OIympics expanded, new events were introduced for men, but only several Olympics later, did they get introduced for women. Women remained second-class citizens as regards participation in sports.

It was only the growing women's rights movement in the late 19th Century and early 20th century that led to an increase in the numbers taking part in sports.

Women's participation reflected women's emancipation, in other words. It needed an Alexandra Kollontai to emerge before an Alexandra Kosteniuk or an Anna Kournikova could emerge.

(Kollontai was a leader of the campaign for women's suffrage, and International Women';s Day and was the Commissar for Women in Russia after 1917, Kosteniuk is the leading Russian woman chess player of the younger generation. Kournikova got to a Wimbledon semi-final at the age of 16).

As others have said, where physical strength and stamina are required, it would be unequal competition, But remember that boxing does not put a flyweight in the ring with a superheavyweight so some sort of grading system that would match those of either sex of similar strength and speed could be devised. It is not beyond human ingenuity.

Sports where strength is not an issue are generally open to both sexes. Chess: Victoria Smijlte won the Lithuanian Championship (open to both sexes) when she was 17. Judit Polgar has appeared for the Hungarian "men's" team (Open Team) at the Chess Olympics. Show-jumping, motor-racing are other examples.

But cultural factors remain, inhibiting women's participation in sport. There are few female role models, few women coaches, few woman referees and umpires, few women sports administrators.

Also, boys put down girls who try to join in. I am a chess coach. And boys say loudly "this is a man's game" when a girl walks into a chess club. It can put many girls off. Most girls learn chess from their dad not their mum and they have a sense that thet don't belong or aren't welcome. Les than 2% of players at a chess congress are female, but in bridge it is more like 40% that are female.

So sexist conclusions that women's brains are not as good as men's at mind sports are erroneous. They ignore the effect of these cultural factors holding back women's participation.

Answer 2

I don't think there is any thing wrong with that, so long as it is the mentally challenging games - as for the physical games, Men and Women did not evolve the same way and it not smart to let the compete in such games together

Answer 3

I think it's a great idea.

I think opening up sports to both sexes will bring a whole new fan base to the games. But you have to watch out because the focus will be taken away from the sport and it will just become a battle of the sexes.

Answer 4

YES
Start with Wimbledon "2007"
Give them equal PAY
Let them compete with men
No mens final
No womens final
Then when you get to Wimbledon
To watch tennis
Through the heats and tournaments leading upto
Wimbledon 2007
See how many Women get the
PRIZE WINNERS MONEY
EQUAL rights for EQUAL pay

Answer 5

Great idea,show jumping is already a sport where male and female compete equally.

Answer 6

Grat idea in games where physical strength does not matter.

But in games where it matters, physical attributes will affect performance and it will not be a fair competition.

Answer 7

I'm all for men and women competing together in any physical activity!!!

Answer 8

some bodies got to come second/last,and lets face it they're use to it

Answer 9

Just let them do it

Answer 10

Well I beat my husbands ar*e in golf..........no he does'nt let me win!!