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serieux? autant le mma je comprend, autant la je comprend pas

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A few months back someone asked "Why do Women have their own leagues for things like Chess? Shouldn't that be something where the physical size advantage of Men shouldn't matter?", and I compiled as best an answer I could. I'll paste it below.

First, the top two 'ranks' (Grandmaster and International Master) are open to any gender. The rank below those two is "Female Grandmaster". Irina Krush, Judit Polgar: women have made these upper "International Master" titles in the past.

Further, you don't typically see "mens events" in chess. You see "open events" (anyone) or "women's events" (women only). This is to show that the distinction isn't really there to separate the two, but rather give opportunity to women if they choose to avail themselves of it.

So the whole of the sport is not split by gender entirely.

However to the rest: It's because of the relatively small amount of women playing chess compared to the more numerous men. If there were no gender distinction, you'd have one or two women in the top 100, the rest men. It'd be impossible for a woman to enter the sport from the bottom and earn enough to make their way up. In this sense, having no gender distinction would be systemic sexism, effectively.

Finally, the less-known one (this is referencing a female Chess player who wrote Chess Bitch): Finances. Money. It comes down to money. In the world of competitive sport, one has to dedicate their life to it. That means they have to garner income from it too. And if there were no gender distinction (again, looking at numbers), men would push women out in a heartbeat.

Jennifer Shahade is a two-time American women's champion and author of the book Chess Bitch. She says women's tournaments are crucial and that eliminating them would be disastrous for the developing cadre of female chess pros.

If you eliminate the prize money associated with women's tournaments, says Shahade, women would "just get other jobs and stop playing chess."

Krush earned $16,000 in this year's U.S. Women's Championship. That may be less than half the prize collected by the male winner of the overall championship, but it's enough that she can devote her time to chess and be a role model for a new generation of girls.

tl;dr: In a perfect world, there'd be an equal number of competitive male and female chess players. Since there are not, the established "Womens tournaments" are typically to encourage more women to play, because getting rid of them would actually drive women away. As time goes on, hopefully more women will join at a young age and eventually, we won't need women's tournaments to keep females in the ranks. It's slowly changing, but it's not happened yet. But it is changing..

In the meantime, some have proposed eliminating titles like Woman Grandmaster, while retaining women's tournaments. As Shahade put it, there are plenty of women's colleges, but graduates don't hold women's Ph.D.s.

One commenter in a Chess.com forum put it thusly:

Everytime someone starts a thread on the topic we get that much closer - like how laughter gets a fairy it's wings.

Sources:

NPR, Chess.com