The Missing Gender: Examining the Barriers to Women’s Participation in Sports in India

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Business Perspectives and Research Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI:10.1177/22785337221148557

Debashree Das, Patanjal Kumar, Aasheesh Dixit, Vivek

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Abstract

The advent of modernity has changed the sports landscape of the world, wherein all barriers, especially gender discrimination, have been broken, with men and women competing shoulder to shoulder in the sports arena. However, the sports landscape in India is completely different, as all the major sports activities are dominated by men. The aim of this study is to classify and rank the barriers that deter women’s participation in sports in India. For achieving this objective, a multi-criteria decision-making technique of Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis has been used for relative ranking and classification of barriers that lead to gender discrimination in sports in India. The study encapsulates significant barriers that hinder women from actively participating in sports in India. The findings of our study suggest that economic barriers, lack of sporting infrastructure and culture, lack of potential career opportunities, knowledge barriers, and socio-cultural barriers are vital reasons that have implications for limiting women’s participation in sports and society alike. From a policy perspective, the proposed model will help identify the key barriers that ought to be addressed to bridge the gap between men and women in the sports sector in India.

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缺失的性别:考察印度女性参与体育运动的障碍

现代性的出现改变了世界体育格局，打破了所有障碍，特别是性别歧视，男女在体育舞台上肩并肩竞争。然而，印度的体育景观完全不同，因为所有主要的体育活动都由男性主导。本研究的目的是对阻碍印度妇女参与体育运动的障碍进行分类和排名。为了实现这一目标，解释性结构建模（ISM）和MICMAC分析的多标准决策技术已被用于对印度体育运动中导致性别歧视的障碍进行相对排名和分类。这项研究概括了阻碍印度妇女积极参与体育运动的重大障碍。我们的研究结果表明，经济障碍、缺乏体育基础设施和文化、缺乏潜在的职业机会、知识障碍和社会文化障碍是限制妇女参与体育和社会的重要原因。从政策角度来看，拟议的模式将有助于确定弥合印度体育部门男女差距所需解决的关键障碍。

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