Women's Olympic Sports on the rise
Tue, 02/23/2010 - 10:59
Just found this article about how Olympic ski-jumping has no women's category.
I would have assumed it was due to lack of interest but the International Olympic Committee actually banned the women's sport. A discrimination charge was brought against them but unfortunately not in time for Vancouver.
So what do you think? Is the increased participation in women's sports a step up for women? Or does the rule requiring all new events to have both womens and mens categories, create an almost reverse discrimination?
By the way this is a follow up on women working's Girl in Flight article http://www.womenworking.com/girl-flight
the suit brought up there made some progress and women's ski jumping has been approved for the 2014 games.