Gender and Equity in Sports

Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Health and Wellbeing of Women and girls4

Illegal drug use and Reproductive health4

Specific disorders among Gender5

Women's and Girls' social inclusion and social integration6

Challenging and transforming Gender norms6

Leadership opportunities for women and girls6

Gender and sport: Policy development7

Considerations for Socio Economic8

Issues of Socio-cultural context8

Safety concerns9

Material and technical issues9

Promotion of gender equity through sport10

Access to resources10

Violence against women11

Conclusion12

Outline

This topic presents the mainly significant features surrounded by the intersection between sport, gender and development.

Gender and Equity in Sports

Introduction

As per outline mentioned above, this paper includes the discussion of the connection between sports and gender and the way to which gender has changed the sports. It also includes the discussion of the women's participation in sports in particular.

Discussion

Sport and Gender have been in connection from many years. Gender and equity in sports was a significant event in history because in 1972 gender and inequity in sports had become a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. Gender is defined as the social role and relationship among men and women. The concerns of gender relate to women and men which includes femininity and masculinity. The biological differences are related to the differences among men and women. The gender is not specifically related to female or women. In fact it is related to the inequalities and differences among men and women in our society or culture. It should be related specifically to the feminism or women's study.

In our society, inequality to women gender is quite common. Women have been differentiated from in our society. The social, political, economic, education, sports and physical issues of women have shown inequality and weaker positions of women in terms of gender differences according to different analyst. That is why gender differences has been a common topic of discussion in our society and interventions are done in order to focus on the issues of gender differences to make corrections by balancing the role and rights of women and girls.

Addressing gender issues through role of sports

The gender and equity in sport has been shifted to sport and equity in gender in the recent years. The change of this attribute in terms of gender and sports has been discussed in the following sub section.

Health and Wellbeing of Women and girls

Sport has proved to be a great phenomenon in genders in terms of health. Health has been related to sports as a positive impact. Involvement of sports has been resulting for improvement of health. Daily activities performed in support of sports have increased the physical health, mental health and well being among women and girls.

Illegal drug use and Reproductive health

Sports are great concerned with the use of illegal drugs and reproductive health behaviours of women and girls. Many researches have been made across the field to discuss the role of the sports in use of illegal drugs and reproductive health. These researches have concluded that among the women and girls involved in sports risky sexual behaviour is exhibited ...