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This isn't true at all. Women's leagues were created because men refused to let women play in the leagues that were already created. That's literally all there was to it.
That's not entirely true.
Some sports did allow women to participate, but only until a woman embarassed a man by winning. Then they'd be banned until women set up their own leagues.
When did that occur and in what sport? That seems like an interesting event in sports history, I would be interested to read about it.
Figure skating, Olympic shotgun skeet, and baseball, at least.
I meant when and in what sport "a woman embarrassed a man by winning" leading to gender segregation of the sport. Olympic shotgun skeet seems like an example, but that's a pretty esoteric "sport," so using that as an example to generalize about sports more broadly seems poorly conceived.
As I noted below, most major sports leagues in the US don't have and, with the exception of baseball (which wasn't because "a woman embarrassed a man by winning," it was just basic sexism/patriarchy), never had rules about gender segregation. Women have always been eligible to play in the NBA, NHL, NFL, etc.
Are you talking about a specific country or something?
The NFL has no gender-specific eligibility requirements. Anyone good enough to play NFL-level football can play.
The NHL is the same.
The NBA is the same, and women have been invited to training camps in the past, but none were able to perform well enough at the game to play in the NBA.
Women were banned from the MLB in 1952, but that was overturned in the 1990s, but no woman has been able to perform well enough to play in the MLB. Melissa Mayeux did make the international registration list for the MLB though, making her eligible to sign with an MLB team.
There are sports where women can be generally equal to men in performance (ultramarathon running) or generally better than men (target shooting), but they are less popular and less lucrative sports.
I'd like a citation on this if you would.