Sports for everybody

Sports for everybody

SPORTS FOR EVERBODY

 

YOU AND ME EQUAL IN GENDER AND SPORT

 

The number of women in sports begin to increase?

 

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of women in sports and in female athletes? participation and achievements in international sports competitions.

 
The real reason we want equal opportunity for women to play sports is so they too can derive the psychological, physiological and sociological benefits of sports participation. Sport has been one of the most important socio-cultural learning experiences for boys and men for many years. Those same benefits should be afforded women.

Women who are active in sports and recreational activities as girls feel greater confidence, self-esteem and pride in their physical and social selves than those who were sedentary as kids.

İt?s a good news for everbody, but unfourtanetly stil we have so much problem. We have to speed this processes up, we have to change stereotypes and to make people most of the media concious.

Stereotypes and Myhts in Sports Media
For too long, women have been discouraged from playing sports by a succession of almost desperate myths and stereotypes, historically perpetuated by the media:

• If she plays sports, she will become “mannish” and “unfeminine.”
• If she plays sports, she will develop an eating disorder.
• Because of her anatomical structure, she will suffer more knee injuries in competitive athletics.
• If she trains too hard, her ovaries and bladder will drop.
• Women who play sports are lesbians.
• Women aren’t interested in playing sports.
• Women with large breasts can’t play golf.

In the 1880s, male doctors even predicted that women who rode bicycles, then symbolic of the independent female, would suffer the dreaded disease of “bicycle face,” the distortion of facial muscles from the pain and suffering derived from contact of the female anatomy with a bicycle seat. Spare us!

The print and electronic media are a huge influence on the values of parents!

 

The print and electronic media are a huge influence on the values of parents, the aspirations of our daughters and the support of peer groups in that critical 10-14 years old period. A 90% male sports journalist/broadcast media is not accurately portraying or adequately covering the achievements of women in sports.

Women want to take part in media just her achievements not her sexuality?
When women’s sports aren’t covered by the print and electronic media, the only images left are advertisements and general news and features that most often offer sexist, anorexic or other physically unrealistic portrayals of females. Such images put a great deal of pressure on girls and women to conform.

We just work together to solve the gender equity problem!

 

Bengü ARSLAN

Sports Journalist