Image is an important component of women's athletics, so the consideration of lesbians in female sports causes a lot of debate. However, there are many female athletes who are leery of these proposals due to the history of women's professional sports. Some female athletes claim that due to the shakiness of finances they were never paid in the old league. In order for new leagues to be successful there needs to be owners, arenas, TV coverage, and players. One component of the male domination in sports is not giving females equal access to coaching and weight training.
Sports is a place where physiological advantages give men power, and they're afraid of losing it.
During this time when the men were gone The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed, and lasted 12 years. Women's professional teams have been successful in Europe, Japan, South America, and Australia, which may partly be due to the lack of male competition outside the United States. Overseas women's basketball is not considered to be a weaker version of men's. In order to get women professional sports teams to be successful in the United States we may need to change who is running them. There has been a lack of support by U.S. businesswomen for women's sports teams.