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ДИСКРИМИНАЦИЈА ЖЕНА У СПОРТУ
DISCRIMINATION OF WOMEN IN SPORTS

Author(s): Zorica Mršević
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Sports Studies
Published by: Факултет за спорт
Keywords: Women; Sports, Discrimination; History of Sports; Mixed Female Male Teams

Summary/Abstract: This article presents arguments for the autors’s claim that sport is an area where clearly exists open discrimination against women. Sport is an activity which is still rising, which is characterized by constant improvement of operations, organization, logistics, leadership, training system, supporting medicine. Tolerated discrimination in and outside the sport, does not at all prevent the flow of money in this branch, but effectively restrict the privileges to the elite of sports, which a thinner, exclusively male composition. Formula of disabling women in sport is "more power - the more politics" and in return, "the more politics - more power and more money," and consequently - fewer women. Those are the barriers that women have yet to break through. The author still sees as a possible development directions the competitions with mixed sports teams, already present in university sporting events in North America.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-24
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Serbian