Gender Equality and the Olympic Programme

Michele K. Donnelly

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367433741
• eBook ISBN: 9781000827774
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This innovative study examines the Olympic programme from a critical feminist perspective, to shed new light on the issues of gender and inclusion at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement.

Incorporating both quantitative and qualitative data, the book identifies and analyzes the changes – and remaining gender differences – made on the Olympic Programmes for London 2012, and each of the subsequent Summer and Winter Olympic Games (Sochi 2014, Rio 2016, and Pyeongchang 2018), as well as the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Games. The book draws on the IOC's own publications, information from International and National Sport Federations, and media sources to describe and explain the IOC's slow and uneven progress toward gender equality at the Olympic Games.

This is important reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policy maker with an interest in the Olympic Games, sport studies, gender studies, women's sport or major events.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Series editor foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A quantitative analysis of gender inequalities and the Olympic programme: By the numbers
• 3 A qualitative analysis of gender inequalities and the Olympic programme: Beyond the numbers
• 4 Sport-specific mixed-gender and open competition events and gender equality: “Encourage the inclusion of mixed-gender team events”
• 5 Mixed-gender relay and team events and gender equality: “Encourage the inclusion of mixed-gender team events”
• 6 Gratuitous gendering, gender equality, and the Olympic programme
• Index