Sociology 2191A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sepp Blatter, Bruce Kidd, Binary Classification
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Gender inequities in participation opportunities, support for athletes, and jobs in coaching and administration. Strategies for achieving equal opportunities for girls and women. Production and reproduction of gender ideology in connection with sports. Ways in which prevailing gender ideology constrains people"s lives and subverts the achievement of gender equity. Cultural and structural changes required to achieve gender equity and democratic access to participation in sports. Five factors account for dramatic increases in sport participation: new opportunities, government equal rights legislation, global women"s rights movement, health and fitness movement o. Teams and programs did not exist prior to 1970. Official start of the second wave of feminism in canada. 1970 report of the royal commission on the status of. 78 recommend that a research project be undertaken to determine why fewer girls than boys participate in sports programs at the school level and recommend remedial action. 1980 women"s program of the fitness and amateur.