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About My Project
Gender discrimination is still present in society today. Even if many people don't notice it, it occurs all around us. This is especially seen within sports, specifically tennis.
Women tennis athletes are awarded a smaller amount of prize money in comparison to men tennis athletes. When confronted with this idea, men tennis athletes today even say that they deserve higher prize money than women tennis athletes because of their higher viewership and attendance rates.
Throughout the years, many social researchers have also found that men and women tennis athletes are given different media coverage during their matches. For example, men receive commentary that portrays their on-court action or their tennis history. Women, on the other hand, are disregarded in their on-court skills and are, instead, given commentary based on their wardrobe or family.
Within these conducted studies, it was mentioned that during a woman's tennis match, their age and health conditions are more likely to be mentioned. Since there has already been a sufficient amount of research done on how gender affects the media coverage that different tennis athletes receive, I will be expanding on this by researching how age and race also play a role, along with gender, on the type of media coverage that women receive in comparison to men within the Wimbledon tournament of 2022.
Tennis viewership of men's and women's singles' matches for the Grand Slams in 2018.
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