Gender Inequality Within Developing Countries And Provide...

Furthermore, the IOC and bodies belonging to the movement reserves about 20% of its decision making positions for women and it funds women especially from developing countries and offer assistance programs for athletes, managers and coaches (IOC Factsheet, 2014). The IOC has developed both educational and training programs targeted at women in Sports to empower them to take up leadership positions within the administrative structures in the NOCs and National Sports Federations (IOCs Factsheet, 2014). Despite all these interventions and modifications, organised sports still remains the institution that perpetuates gender inequality (McDonagh and Pappano 2008:247) and a platform where inequality prospers (Zoonen 1994:150). Messner (1989)†¦show more content†¦In Wacquant’s (2004:16) view, one needs to acquire a set of ‘’bodily and mental schemata’’ and also to construct the ‘’theory of practice’’ to effectively participate in sports (Bourdieu, 1997). Borrowing from this approach, I will seek to understand and describe my lived experience through active participation in sports. In this regard, my research will follow the dictates of Mauss, (1979) that, to attain a disposition to do sports as in the case of any other technique of the body, the work done by the individual will be for practical collective reason (that underlines accepted theories of social action). In societies where athletes excel, the benefit is not for only the athlete but also the community as Brownell (1995:15) explains in ‘’training the body for China’’. Developing his ideas further, Mauss (1979) posited that there are instances where a ‘’physio-psycho-sociological’’ congregation of series of action may be habitual or ancient in the life of the individual and also in the history of the society. The idea of a habitual â€Å"physio-psycho-sociological† comportment might help account for why women do not participate in sports to the same degree as men – the larger social habitus does not include a prominent role for women in sports participation. Nationalisation Foucault (1977, 1978) theorized that understanding the global landscape of