TY  - JOUR
T1  - Prevalence of Mainstream Gender-Related Issues in Sports: Female Student Athletes’ Perceptions
AU  - Subba, Awashes
PY  - 2018
DA  - June
JF  - International Journal of Sport Culture and Science
JO  - IntJSCS
PB  - Uluslararası Bilim Kültür ve Spor Derneği
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-1148
SP  - 203
EP  - 209
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - This study aims to examine female student athletes’ perceptions on gender-related issues insports through a quantitative survey. Three hundred and forty-two (N=342) female studentathletes studying physical education in under graduate courses were selected from differentcolleges of Sikkim. Gender-related issues were assessed by using questionnaire based onLikert scale developed by Jafrey (1995). Out of forty-three items in the scale, ten items wereselected as relevant for assessing perceptions of female student athletes regarding genderissues in sports. Percentage analysis of responses to each statement was calculated. Resultshowed that the perception of the female student athletes about the gender-related issue (seetable-1) in sports is mostly positive; it means that the gender-related problems do exists insports. Female student athletes opined that the gender-related problems restrict women’sparticipation in sports. The study also revealed that female student athletes disagreed with thenotion that vigorous participation in games and sports leads to loss of femininity amongwomen. This finding suggests that it is necessary to make improvements in support system forfemale student athletes of colleges for their participation in sports.
KW  - Female students
KW  - athletes
KW  - gender
KW  - sports
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/intjscs/issue//442891
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/505213
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