Build-Up

One day girls and young women would be able to play sports in their schools without being discriminated. Boys were not the only ones that were good at sports girls were also. At schools they didn't want to pay the money for the sports that girls played. "Society assumed that educating men was more important than educating women. That realization made her feel like her hard work had been discounted, 'that what I'd won seemed somehow cheaper,' she said. 'It was a devastating feeling.'" 

"I feel confident that in the years ahead many of the remaining outmoded barriers to women's aspirations will disappear."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, chairwoman of President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, 1962