Does Gender Matter in Sports? Identity, Inequality & Injury
In the modern Western world, gender matters in sports for at least two reasons: gender identification and injuries, specifically concussions. The masculine identity traditionally developed to include strength, toughness, competitiveness, aggression and the ability to endure pain. Rightly or wrongly, those concepts have included males in sports while excluding females. Based on the writings of Michel Foucault, some modern thinkers are challenging those traditionally oppressive male-centered concepts in sports, though males still dominate. In addition, female high school athletes reportedly sustain a far greater number of concussions than do male high school athletes. Researchers have suggested several reasons for this phenomenon. However, the fact remains that gender matters in terms of high school athletic concussions. Consequently, as of the date of this paper, gender matters in sports.
Forensic Hair Analysis: Inadequacy and the Rise of DNA Testing
One June night 13 years ago, a killer fired several shots, killing 30-year-old Perry Harder. The killer and an accomplice loaded the body into the back of a van and drove to an isolated spot outside Winnipeg, Manitoba,…