Abstract
Today, women's participation in sports has been increasing with the changes in society. It's clear to everyone that female participation has been expanding in sports. Neverthless, sports are still undoubtedly prospering as part of male cluture. Since sports reflect sex differences distinctively and exaggerately, there is a great possibility that the differences can be reduced to biological ones. Sports may have a reproducing function in the society. If “sex-stereotyping” continuously restraints not only women's sport activities, but women's lives themselves in addition to male dominance and control, studying “sex-stereotyping” in sports based on the mutual relationship between sports and society will, I think, lead us to think about better sport activities and a better way of life in society for women.
We need to clarify the sports world, which is based around male dominance, through a micro-persepective, dynamic study of “sex-stereotyping” in sports. And further, the hidden mechanism that produces sexual inequality in the society should be clarified. But there has been very little research done regarding this topic in the siciology of sports. I think that researching sports in school, which has a socialization function, may be the most effective means for enforcing stereotypes.
