Girls are and can be just as good at sports, at everything else, just as good as the men and the boys are. I really admired this book and the author, Rachel Ignotofsky, for showing me and everyone else that girls are not the weaker gender.
There were familiar names such as Simone Biles, Violet Palmer, Madge Syers, and Serena Williams along with some less familiar names like Kristi Yamaguchi, Babe Didrikson Zaharias or Gertrude Ederle.Īs a child doing sports, I was always told that boys were the athletic superiors and girls were the supposed "weaker gender".
The timeline stretched from around 776 BC up until now (or at least until "Women in Sports' was published). I loved reading "Women in Sports" by Rachel Ignotofsky. I just want to say even before I begin discussing the book's contents, the cover already attracts the readers in, and that's an important part of getting someone to pick up a book in a bookstore or in a library. Women in Sports celebrates the success of the tough, bold, and fearless women who paved the way for today’s athletes. The book also contains infographics on topics that sporty women want to know about such as muscle anatomy, a timeline ofwomen’s participation in sports, pay and media statistics for female athletes, and influential women’s teams.
The athletes featured include well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, as well as lesser-known champions like Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball in a professional men’s league, and skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee. Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science.Ī richly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the 1800s to today, including trailblazers, Olympians, and record-breakers in more than forty sports.
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