Unequal Playing Time Rachel Shafer

Ideal College Town Progressive Liberal Minded Socially Blended

Women in the student yearbooks

Women’s athletics in 1921

1921 Yearbook Staff Nine female editors Seven male editors

Girls’ athletic association Formed in October 1922 Purpose: provide fun recreational athletic events among women at Marshall

1924 The Girls’ Athletic Association participated in the Young Women’s Christian Association annual basketball tournament

1924 yearbook staff Six women Seven men

1925 Yearbook Staff Seven women Eleven Men

Women’s Athletics Nationally 1922: Women’s World Games were held in Paris 1924: Women were accepted to the Olympics 1925: Women’s basketball debuted in high schools 1926: the first National Women’s Basketball Championship

Changes in 1926 Now part of the National Girls’ Athletic Association Offer new classes and social opportunities for women

Yearbook Staff 1926 Two women Five men

1927 and 1928 No women documented as yearbook editors No recognition for the Girls’ Athletic Association

Women of 1928 Only focus is on women’s beauty instead of athletics

Women of 1929 Beauty Athletics

Physical Education club Created in 1931 as a replacement to the Girls’ Athletic Association

Back 1908 Recreational women’s basketball and tennis

Yearbook editors of 1908 Five women Seven men

“sporting events are a central component of student life at American colleges and universities” -Blake Gumprecht

First wave of feminism 1800’s to 1920’s Higher education Visibility in government and law Suffrage

“because of second wavers’ activism, a girl can play sports on school and community teams” –Rory Dickers

Ideal College Town Progressive Liberal Minded Socially Blended