All though we have started to see more female athletes in. the olympics, it took a very long time to see any change at all.
Times we started to see change:
- The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event was Charlotte Cooper of the United Kingdom, who won the tennis women's singles in 1900.
- Softball was featured as a women-only sport in Olympic Games from 1996 to 2008. The male equivalent was baseball, which was played from 1992 to 2008. Both sports were dropped from the Olympics, though are set to return in 2020.
- In the 2016 Rio Olympics there are two women-only events: Synchronized Swimming and Rhythmic Gymnastics.
- The 2016 Rio Olympic Games has both the highest ever number of women competitors and the highest percentage, with women making up about 45 percent of the total participants, according to the IOC.
A quote from the article titled "Women in sport. Where are we in gender equality today"-
“CHANGE LIES IN ALL OF US.” THAT’S HOW EVELYN WATTA, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS PRESS ASSOCIATION, SUMMED UP THE CONVERSATION AT THE OLYMPISM IN ACTION FORUM “WOMEN IN SPORT” SESSION ON HOW SPORT CAN BE A CATALYST FOR EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS."
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