Gender Relations, Gender Equity, and Community Sports Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 019372352096295
Author(s):  
Ruth Jeanes ◽  
Ramòn Spaaij ◽  
Karen Farquharson ◽  
Georgia McGrath ◽  
Jonathan Magee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Community Sports ◽  
The Impact

This study employs a spatial analysis to critically examine gender relations within an Australian football and netball community sports club that has sought to address gender inequity and promote the participation of women across the club. Notable changes included increased female representation in the club’s decision-making structures, growing numbers of female members, and the establishment of a women’s and girls’ football section. Using an in-depth case study that combined interviews and observations over a 6-month period, we investigated the impact these changes have had on transforming gender relations and in challenging perceptions of the club as a privileged space for its male members. The study utilized spatial and feminist theory to illustrate that, despite the club’s efforts to change gender relations, men who are able to embody dominant forms of masculinity (i.e., high ability and able-bodied) continue to be privileged within the club environment. The article highlights the importance of spatial analysis in illuminating the ways in which various micro-level practices preserve dominant gender relations within community sports. The findings reinforce that although a greater number of women and girls are participating in community sport, this alone is not significantly reshaping gender relations. Policies seeking to promote gender equity in sport need to enforce changes in club environments in addition to focusing on increasing women’s participation.

scholarly journals The impact of an “equal opportunities” ideological framework on coaches’ knowledge and practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 975-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Norman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Equality And Diversity

This study focuses upon UK professional coaches’ experiences of equity training and the impact of the conceptualisation of equity as a matter of equal opportunities on this education and subsequent coaching practice. The research employs a critical feminist approach to connect the ideological framing of gender equity by sporting organisations to coaches’ ability to understand, identify and manage issues of gender equity, equality and diversity. The discussions are based on interviews with four coaches, Jack, Peter, Charlotte and Tony, who had all recently undertaken equity training, and all of whom represented sports and different stages of the coaching pathway. The data highlights that seeing gender equity through an “equal opportunities” lens results in a narrow conceptualisation of such issues by coaches, fails to challenge dominant and discriminative ideologies, and does not enable coaches to address equity within their practices. Consequently, coaches struggle to understand the importance of and manage such issues. The participants’ experiences reveal that gender relations, intersected principally with religion and ethnicity, underpinned their everyday coaching practices. The findings illustrate the need for sporting organisations to redefine how they approach equality and equity and for a more sophisticated sociocultural educational programme for coaches.

scholarly journals PERAN PEREMPUAN ACEH PADA PENDIDIKAN DAN POLITIK: Studi kasus di lingkungan Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Nurul Jeumpa
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The demand of equal rights of women in different spheres of life is one of the important agenda which voiced loudly today. Women’s achievements and skills in various aspects of life indicates that there is no difference between women and men. The results of this study show that women's participation in education at the University of Muhammadiyah is very good. It can be seen from the active participation of women in various educational programs in order to succeed teaching and learning process. While the impact of political existence in the university environment Aceh still shows a very little impact. It can be seen from the role of two women in the field of politics at the University of Muhammadiyah Aceh. Basically, Islam never distinguish between women and men. Islam permits women’s role in politics.

scholarly journals Exploring Gender Socialization on African Political System and Women's Participation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Andrew Enaifoghe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Political System ◽  
Gender Socialization ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This study explored the role of gender plays and the participation impacts of women on African politics, the religion and socio-cultural factors responsible for the underrepresentation of women through socialization in Africa. Obviously, past research has demonstrated that fundamentalist religious beliefs and affiliations are related to preservationist gender demeanours or attitude. This idea not only impacts gender gaps in political participation in cross-national examinations by belligerence that women's portrayal ought to be measured in an unexpected way or differently. Utilizing Fundamentalism and Modernization Theories, this paper shows that long haul impacts of women's representation are more indispensable than short-term measures in understanding gender gap in a mixture of political exercises. The timeframe since women have accessed the political framework discloses the gender gap to a more noteworthy degree than the presence of women in the governing body and cabinet at one point in time. Findings demonstrate that the suppositions of earlier work on women representation and political conduct or attitude may stretch out beyond Africa it also finds that gender grouping has in many ways impacted the low participation of women in African political system through socialization. At last, this study shows that the kind of political exercises matter and the implementation of policies that encourage give women level play ground to participate in politics while breaking down the impact of gender socialization as of the factors for women's representation in legislative issues crosswise over Africa. A qualitative approach was used in this study alongside with empirical investigation.

What Does It Take to Clean the Ganga? Gendered Dimensions of Protest and Policy Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Anjali Dalal
Keyword(s):  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
River Pollution ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

In the last two decades, pollution in the river Ganga has become a serious issue, affecting the socio-economic activities and the health of the communities living on the banks and adjacent areas of the river. The impact has been greater on women, because their day-to-day activities for survival are intimately connected with this water resource. The response of the government has been to drastically improve its environmental policies. Social activists on the other hand continued to mobilize civil society in regional protests, which finally led to the beginning of the ‘Save Ganga’ movement. Yet, both the strategies to clean the river pollution have been colossal failures. An analysis was undertaken of various government policies, reports and court judgements on the river’s pollution and a primary survey was done on three sites: Garhwal in Uttarakhand and in Varanasi and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to gauge the nature of women’s participation in the movements. It was found that there was greater participation by women in the hilly Garhwal region than in the plains of Uttar Pradesh. The research proved that women’s knowledge and experiences in environmental conservation had led to greater sustainability, in contrast to the results of the modern-technocratic approach of state officials and so-called environmentalists. The article seeks to locate the failure of the project of cleaning the river to the lack of gender sensitive environmental policies and insufficient participation of women in ecological activism.

Women's participation in the Rwandan genocide: mothers or monsters?

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (877) ◽  
pp. 69-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Law

AbstractThe participation of women in the 1994 Rwandan genocide should be considered in the context of gender relations in pre-genocide Rwandan society. Many ‘ordinary’ women were involved in the genocide but, overall, committed significantly fewer acts of overt violence than men. Owing to the indirect nature of women's crimes, combined with male ‘chivalry’, women may be under-represented among those pursued for genocide-related crimes, despite the broad conception of complicity in Rwanda's Gacaca Law. Women in leadership positions played a particularly important role in the genocide, and gendered imagery, including of the ‘evil woman’ or ‘monster’, is often at play in their encounters with the law.

scholarly journals Accrual quality: The presence of women directors on audit committee boards

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 675-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zalailah Salleh ◽  
Hafiza Aishah Hashim ◽  
Nor Raihan Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Women Directors ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Accrual Quality ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This article examines whether the participation of women on audit committee boards enhances audit committee effectiveness to control earnings management practices. While numerous studies have investigated the effects of women audit committee on earnings management, empirical evidence is rather inconsistent. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate the impact of female representation on audit committee effectiveness. In order to address the objective of the study, we use cross-sectional version of the performance-adjusted current discretionary accruals model to detect earnings management (Kothari, Leone and Wasley, 2005). Using a sample of 356 companies for the year ended 2007; we found a significant negative relationship between the presence of women directors on audit committee boards and earning managements. The results suggest that the presence of women directors on audit committee boards reduces earning management practices.

Women’s Participation in the Public Domain Under Human Rights Law: Towards a Participatory Equality Paradigm Shift

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Rubio-Marín
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Full Diversity ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Participation Of Women

This chapter explores how human rights law has contributed to the shift towards participatory gender equality by legitimating the adoption of quotas and parity mechanisms to ensure women’s equal participation in decision-making. Since the adoption of CEDAW, human rights law has moved away from formal equality notions that simply affirm women’s equal political rights. Instead, we see growing endorsement of substantive equality doctrines that validate the adoption of gender quotas, initially as temporary special measures to ensure women equal opportunities, and, more recently, as permanent measures targeting the gender-balanced composition of an ever-expanding range of public and private governance bodies. The chapter explores how human rights law connects this participatory turn to issues of pluralism, calling attention to the need for public bodies to represent the full diversity of the population, and calling on state parties to increase the participation of women from ethnic minorities, indigenous groups, and religious minorities.

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