Growing up a girl in the heavily male dominated industry that is Major League Baseball, I learned quickly that I was to be seen and not heard. My father coached for the entirety of my life in minor and major league baseball. Being the coach's daughter gave me many first hand opportunities to see how a team is put together and run, making me qualified to discuss this issue. Now as I am spending thousands of dollars on tuition as a sport major with hopes of a career in major league baseball, I am getting discouraged. I am simply not satisfied with being a receptionist for a major league team, which is one of the more common female roles in the sport. I am going for the top spot: general manager.  I know I have the baseball knowledge to carry me and I learn more and more about the business everyday, however I still get incredulous looks from people when I tell them of my goal. It's quite insulting really. I am working hard in school to learn as much as I can about this business and I am very competitive. I just want to be able to rest assured that equal employment opportunities will be available.

An article about Title IX by Maya Dusenberry and Lee Jaeah gives a closer look at how Title IX has affected women in sport and the outlines given to women 

and athletics under the law. Arguing both the positive and negative things that have been changed because of Title IX, the article did take a stand for further equality between boys and girls athletics in all of education.  The authors used many statistics to show the drastic inequality between everything from funding to participation. While this article was written by women and used an account of one of the women who helped to draft the bill, it was written with easy bias to the support of women. Including someone who had a hand in the passing of the bill adds ethos to the writing and makes this source more credible. Having statistics makes the article more credible and will later add more depth to the argument of why women are underrepresented in sport since most exposure first occurs in schools. 


 Next, an article discovered on the Huffington Post about the recent hiring of a female football coach with the Buffalo Bills, titled, "Women Have no Place in Professional Sports?" immediately peaked interest. This article gives a male opinion of females in professional sports in all aspects. Grametbauer supported the women of sport and even took some female fans opinions of the game. It was quite apparent that he is in favor of women in professional sports and will get a great deal of attention because of the popularity of the sports column in the Post. He shows that 

not all males have the same negative opinion about women in the world of professional sport. 


An article found on ESPN, "Will Kim Ng be MLB's first female GM?" by Jim Caple was a profile on one of  sports most successful ladies. Kim Ng is the current senior vice president of baseball operations for major league baseball and is the only woman to have ever been an assistant manager for an MLB team. This article was not published on ESPN's regular website but instead on ESPNW, a side network for women's sports. The author, Jim Caple shows that Ng is obviously qualified for her job and beyond, but her male counterparts have simply overlooked her. Since the article was published on ESPNW and not ESPN it has heavier female bias. Caple is a man writing about women in the sport world and singing her praises. ESPNW also tends to have exclusively female authors so for him to be featured it shows that he is held to a high standard.

The question of women's representation in major league baseball is arguable because of the lack of women involved with all aspects of the sport. Also the lack of women in baseball that have reached these positions in other sports is absolutely astounding. The aforementioned sources will be beneficial to my plan of action because they all support the claim that women are in fact underrepresented in professional sports. The perspectives are generally aligned with my own except the 

Kim Ng article. I had no clue she even existed before, so the absence of her in my argument shows weakness on my part. This discovery has changed my ideas and 

therefore will alter my argument to include this as evidence of the rare cases that women do actually make it to a very high position in major league baseball. 

