Women in sports

I think that women in sports most of the time looked at as a joke. But women also seem to always have to work harder at what they do to make it in the sports industry. If we talk about women that are participating in male dominated sports they seem to be made to look much more sexy. We can use Dannica Patrick as an example. When she was first introduced to the public as a professional race car driver she was not really looked at as an important figure in the industry. So she proved that she was worth something when she started to win races and when she started to dress more provocatively and appear on the front covers of sports magazines. To me it seems like to be important or interesting in the sports world you need to become a sex symbol. I guess this is what makes the whole sports world interesting so why change it, but this kind of makes woman look bad because they have to dress in provocative ways to be noticed. I would also personaly like to seem sports allow men and women teams combined.