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What constitutes equal opportunity for women in sports? The three major theories of equal opportunity are mistaken when applied to sports. In particular, the popular "proportional attainments" model assumes that the skills relevant to a job or position are randomly distributed. Sports is a counterexample: women are smaller than men, so it is not unjust that women are less than 50% of professional football players. Three treatments for such physiologically disadvantaged groups are considered: (1) separate competition classes; the model of weight classes in boxing should be applied to sex, so that skillful women may move up to play against the men if they wish; but this method discriminates against smaller or less talented Ms; (2) ability groupings; this is the morally justifiable method -- provided that encouragement & chances to play exist on the lower skill levels; (3) variety of sports; since women are naturally superior to men at some sports (eg, balance beam), it promotes women's self-respect to develop a variety of sports in which a variety of physical types can expect to excel. Our concept of "sports" contains a M bias for historical reasons, if we tend to think only of activities rewarding size & muscle mass as "sports." AA.