Many TV channels show more men’s sport than women’s sport. Why is this? Should TV channels give equal time to men’s and women’s sport?
It is apparent that there is consistently far less TV coverage of women’s sport than of men’s sport. This discrepancy could be attributed to prevailing gender stereotypes within sport, and to combat this, there should be more balanced coverage of women’s sports from national broadcasters in order to gain support among a more mainstream audience.
Doubtless, the shortage of airtime for women’s sport reflects the public’s outdated opinion on its entertainment value. For a long time, physically demanding activities in general, and sport in particular, have been largely associated with masculinity rather than femininity. Audiences are more drawn to games played by males, with the expectation of greater agility and more exciting competition. As a consequence of receiving less public attention and sponsorship, sports programs focusing on female sport is repeatedly cut, despite the fact that women still account for a large percentage of sports participants, giving more room for the representation of male sport matches.
I am of the opinion that there should be a balance in the broadcasting of both men’s and women’s sports because of the tremendous benefits for society. The frequent TV coverage of the athletic achievements of successful male sporting celebrities encourages greater rates of participation across the globe, thus promoting the development of sportsmanship. If more screen time were devoted to female sports, there would be a rise in female role models for young women to follow, contributing to a change in the public mindset regarding female participation in sport and in turn catalyzing interest in sports involvement among women together with its numerous physical and social benefits.
In conclusion, the uneven TV coverage of men’s and women’s sports is clearly linked to outdated opinions regarding gender roles in sport. Nonetheless, I firmly believe that more female athletes should be featured on TV so as to increase women’s participation in sport, with immense benefits for both females as individuals and society as a whole.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 230, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...emale athletes should be featured on TV so as to increase women's participation in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, nonetheless, regarding, so, still, thus, as to, in conclusion, in general, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1809.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 320.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.653125 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24951769258 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.1995128554 49.4020404114 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.454545455 106.682146367 154% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0909090909 20.7667163134 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.81818181818 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.51772586888 0.244688304435 212% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.24698127352 0.084324248473 293% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15374245136 0.0667982634062 230% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.384706703303 0.151304729494 254% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801337729028 0.056905535591 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 13.0946893788 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.12 50.2224549098 50% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.08 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.06 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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