Academic Resources For Women On and Off The Field

The moment I started this major, after a semester of starting my other major in Sports Communications, I knew I wanted to raise awareness to the amount of respect women receive in sports.  Now initially, we all think of playing sports, but there is much more involved, which is women sports reporters and coaches.  Those are the three areas that my research paper will cover.  In conducting my research, I plan to  conduct a survey throughout Shepherd University for students to complete.  My initial reaction to creating a survey is simply, however, it requires more work then what I thought.  This is one of the sources I will be using, a peoples survey throughout Shepherd University and the campus populations impression on women in sports.  By using Pew Research Center it is helping me create appropriate questions for the survey.  The survey questions need to be ones that can properly measure the options, experiences, and behaviors of the students, as it says at Pew Research Center.  The topics that will be included in the survey is Title IX, female athletes, female reporters, salary, and female coaches, all of which will be calculated to help answer the hypothesis in my study.  This is a key component in my research paper because it is something that has not been done before, but also it will be a reflection on campus knowledge for sports.  This is a topic that is often swept under the rug, but due to the rise of equality and the need for change, I truly believe that it is an appropriate paper that will raise awareness for change for women in the sports industry.