True or false? It is true that these Olympic Games will have a participation rate of 50% between men and women. At the Olympic Games Tokio 2021he 48,8% of the participants were womenclose to achieving full parity
However, in certain disciplines parity is not respected. The wrestlingFor example, it is a sport where only men compete. On the other hand, women are the only ones who participate in rhythmic gymnastics. He COI It has also modified certain events. The 50 kilometers of marchuntil now reserved for men, will become a mixed relay race.
More events reserved for men’s sports
Los Paris Olympic Games They will end with a women’s marathon. Generally women run before men. However, there are still more events booked for men’s sports than women’s sports during these upcoming summer games.
According to Michele Donnellyprofessor of Sports Management at Brock University, Canada, numbers alone do not tell the whole story: “Parity is not the same as equality. It is a numerical equality. It is about numbers. And it is limited to the number of athletes Equality is a much more complete way of understanding men and women, not only having the same number of opportunities but also have the same conditions of participation y the same, promotion and status and all that, all those experiences that go beyond numbers.
The claims that are being made right now are very worrying in terms of really sending the message that we are there, we have achieved gender equality and we just haven’t done it
So those could be differences in race lengths, the size and weight and spacing type of equipment at an event; At the Summer Games we are aware of the differences in uniforms required for male and female athletes in some events. All these differences, when they exist, are always smaller than in the women’s event. The hashtag Olympics with gender equality It is more than just what is happening. The claims that are being made at the moment are very worrying in terms of really sending the message that we are there, we have achieved gender equality and we just haven’t done it.
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Women underrepresented as coaches
However, some sports during the Olympic Games They do not have gender differentiation: these include archery, triathlon and badminton, For example. Although there are the same number of athletes, women are still greatly underrepresented during the Olympic Games as coaches or technical officials. Gender parity has increased rapidly taking into account the obstacles that women had to overcome to be part of the Games.
Women are prohibited from competing
IOC founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin banned women from competing in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. In 1900, 22 women were invited to compete in five women’s sports, while 975 men competed in everything from track and field to rowing.. Women did not represent more than 10% of the participants until 1952. It was not until 2014 that the IOC added parity total gender as one of its objectives.
2024-03-27 06:10:07
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