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8 de mar. de 1999 · Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports: With Lauren Hutton, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova.
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- 1999-03-08
- Documentary, Sport
- 81
Documentary exploring the history of women in sports. Highlights the struggles and triumphs of many of this century's greatest female athletes, showing how each generation paved the way for future women athletes to close the gender gap on and off the field of play.
Using landmark moments of American history as a barometer for women’s athletic achievements, this superb documentary reveals how the suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the feminist movement of the 60s and the more recent Title IX legislation set the stage for the rise of today’s female athletic superstars.
Melanie RW Oram (She/Her) earned an Emmy for REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL while at HBO Sports and a Peabody for the documentary DARE TO COMPETE: THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN IN SPORTS.
- Female
- Director/Writer/Producer
- melanie@bajanbrownstone.com
- New York City
Written by tennis player-turned broadcaster Mary Carillo and Frank Deford, this documentary traces the historic struggle of women to compete on playing fields so long controlled by men....
4 de mar. de 1999 · There were only 300,000 girls all over America in high school sports then; today, there are well over 2 million. The law makes a difference, too, and we will do our best here to be faithful to it.
"Dare To Compete: The Struggle of Women In Sports" is a linear, focused history of important incidents in women's sports history: the 800-meter run in the 1928 Olympics, the formation of the AAGPBL during World War II, Babe Didrikson Zaharias' courageous performance in the 1954 U.S. Women's Open, Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in the ...
