Gender Inequality and Female Sports Participation in Turkey

Abstract The studies conducted over recent decades on media sports coverage indicatedmajor underrepresentation of women’s sports. The underrepresentation of women’s sports in the media is aligned with the perception of sport as a masculine construct with sportswomen as the ‘other’. However, most studies were conducted in English-speaking countries. In this article we present our findings of press media coverage in Poland. The aim of the study was to provide an analysis of sports press coverage in the largest Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, with respect to gender inequality. The chosen method was content analysis. The results show an underrepresentation of women’s sports in the examined press coverage – only 12.5% of all articles concerned female sports. Qualitative analysis demonstrates that the articles differed in terms of the athletes’ gender as well. The study highlighted the gender-dependent nature of the examined sports press coverage in Poland.

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Female Sports Participation, Gender Identity and the British 2010 Equality Act

Sport Ethics and Philosophy ◽

10.1080/17511321.2021.1993982 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Cathy Devine

Keyword(s):

Gender Identity ◽

Sports Participation ◽

Female Sports

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High Intensity Female Sports Participation

Obstetrics and Gynecology ◽

10.1097/01.aog.0000483876.80850.c2 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 127 ◽

pp. 56S

Author(s):

Gloria A. Bachmann ◽

Emma Hsu ◽

Charletta A. Ayers ◽

Chi-Wei Lu ◽

Mary Gastrich

Keyword(s):

High Intensity ◽

Sports Participation ◽

Female Sports

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The impact of gender discrimination on trait sports confidence (TSCI) in Pakistani athleteâ€™s

Journal of Management Info ◽

10.31580/jmi.v3i1.11 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 18-20

Author(s):

Fahmida Jamshaid ◽

Bilal Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

Sports Participation ◽

Table Tennis ◽

Cultural Attitudes ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Female Sports ◽

The Subject ◽

The Impact

The main purpose of the study was to study the gender discrimination and trait sports confidenceof Pakistani sport persons withspecial reference to their socio-cultural factors associated with female sports participation and performance.Another purpose of the study was to examine and find out whether one psychosocial (self-confidence) dimension exercised a stronger influence on gender. The analysis was administered to a sample of 300 (150 males and 150 females) athletes aged 17 to 24 who participated sports at various level in a variety of sports like cricket, hockey, basketball, table tennis, badminton and athletics. Each of the subject responded to a modified version of Trait Sports Confidence Inventory (Vealey, R.S. (1986). An analysis of the results illustrated that significant difference existed between male and female playerâ€™s trait sportconfidence due to the socioeconomic and socio cultural attitudes and environments.

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