Researcher Emília Fernandes, from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho, publishes a gender policy in national sports directorates, allowing women greater visibility in decision making.
The current Rectorate she professes represents Portugal in the European project “Gesport +”, “which intends to present, in 2020, guidelines to the European Commission on gender equality in sports governance”.
UMinho receives a working week this Tuesday from “Gesport +”, which has the support of the Erasmus + program and you are still from Denmark, from the United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey and Spain.
The project – added – is in the process of collecting data, questionnaires to the sports federations of the five partner countries and interviews with women with the Sports Sports Institutions. “In Portugal, the houses of federations of 56 sports at the end of 2018, only female-headed people, which is very little,” said Emília Fernandes. It adds: “In the country there is a certain invisibility of gender issues in sport, including scarce information on the subject and a poor presence in the media of the narratives of managers, dispensers, coaches and other representatives.”
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The researcher of a boy who has several predominantly male and other predominantly female sports, whose sectorization is maintained over time. However, as hierarchies and the taking of their capacity for masculinity in both cases, “including gymnastics and sports dance.”
“There is also a propensity for masculinization in the other partner countries, but there is a change in culture and law that creates another balance, such as the code that seeks gender parity in the UK and the latest quota policy in Italy,” he explains. Emilia Fernandes.
One of the goals of “Gesport +” is, therefore, to deepen as diverse realities, value learning among the five countries and promote as good practices, as expected this week in Braga. In the Portuguese case, for example, there is a future analysis of the testimonies and experiences of leaders, to better understand the power structures and the processes of governance and decision.
This project mainly covers the universities of Minho, Zaragoza (Spain), Teramo (Italy), Leicester (United Kingdom) and Sakarya (Turkey), with a view to research and an initiative by the Equality Authorities in Europe. The official website is gesport.unizar.es.
Source: https://oamarense.pt/investigadora-da-uminho-propoe-igualdade-de-genero-nas-direccoes-desportivas/