Sports are an essential part of human life, in the sense theoretically speaking, that each person if he or she wants to lead a healthy life should exercise for at least 30 minutes a day.  
    Long ago, before the twentieth century, women rarely took part in sports.  If they did they were considered outcasts from society because it was not ‘lady like’ to pursue sports.  Going even further back  when transportation was by horse and carriage women who rode horses were considered shameless.  Gradually they started to ride sidesaddle then the now considered normal way and then they even started taking part in competitions and trips. 
    Nowadays, the case is totally opposite.  In the Olympics nearly every sport, if not all, are held for women and men.  Not only are women taking up sports previously believed to be solely for men, such as football and basketball, but men have also started taking up sports that were believed to be solely for women.  
    In AUB there are girls on the swim team;  there is a girls’ basket ball team, and there are many other sports with girls as members, or sole participants.  No longer are girls considered outsiders on the playing fields, even though there are still some guys who believe girls should not play ball games such as football and basketball.  
    Girls are now part of sports and for every sport or team there is a coach.  All the AUB coaches are males.   Why is that so? If girls are now part of sports activities then there should be equality between the sexes, not just in the players but also in the coaches.  
    In Lebanese society, and maybe even in a more general view, in the Arab culture, parents do not usually allow girls to go on trips to other countries because there are no female coaches on the trips.  Maybe if there were at least one female coach, or companion, AUB women’s team players could go on the trips. 
  Girls are already going on these trips, but not as many as the guys.  If there were to be an adult female on the trip, more would be able to participate, therefore leading to more games for the women’s teams.