There has been a great deal of progress led to a screeching halt due to getting approval from the university to distribute my survey via email to the entire student body. This news makes me rather nervous because if it is not accepted, that means this study can not meet the deadline for finals. It is an attitudinal study, therefore since it falls under psychology, it must be approved by the IRB to then be sent to students. I am certainly crossing my fingers that this survey gets approved so I can further my research for my capstone.
As we play the waiting game, I have not stopped researching more cases of women who have endured social scrutiny because of their gender in a male dominated field in sports. In fact, I have experienced recently the immediate discomfort of going into a male dominated office and feeling the pressure of being a female. I then was reminded by a dear friend of mine that having those feelings is a common thing because it not only happens in sports, it also happens in any male dominated branch you enter. Hearing that, it lit a fire within to set forth with furthering my research and raise awareness on the importance of equality for all in any field they go into, but more specifically, women in the sports industry.
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