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Women's sports exist because men wouldn't allow them to even play competitive sports, period. Women's leagues were created as a conciliatory gesture from misogynists, not out of some sense of chivalrous duty to uphold fairness and equality.
That's an interesting take when there's generally no rules preventing women from competing in professional men's leagues.
There are no rules against it today. Go back in time 100 years and you have a culture of women being excluded from sports in general in favor of them learning "women's work" or being homemakers. The 14th amendment was the catalyst that allowed women to begin participating in competitive sports as more than just a passtime or a hobby.
There isn't men sports. There are sports, and women sports. The league men play in allow both genders.
That's how it works today, but historically that has not been the case. Women even being allowed to play sports is less far removed from the present day than you might imagine.
Lol, no they don't. Some do, but many don't.
For games like golf, up until relatively recently, women weren't even allowed to be club members.
Let's not rewrite history.