Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

Streetman, Aspen E.; Heinrich, Katie M.

doi:10.1080/17430437.2023.2270443

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“…Specifically, it is to underline that the “dual embodiment” and empowerment phenomenon were investigated, for the first time, in a sociological perspective purpose-tailored for the variegated female component of Italian BXC practitioners. Since the “dual embodiment” process through sport is a crucial dimension in terms of empowerment, gaps reduction, and fight against anti-female and anti-disability prejudice ( 85 , 86 ), we are confident that our research might help spread interest, knowledge, and awareness of the still under-investigated field of gender and disability disparities in sport. Hopefully, it might also suggest cues for further investigations aimed at deepening and designing educative tools and methodologies to promote a concrete society growth against any form of discrimination through the practice of sport.…”

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Female blind baseball players against gender discrimination: the “red diamonds” experience

Carretti,

Russo,

Manetti

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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BackgroundSport has the well-known power of improving body awareness, self-esteem, and social interaction, thus promoting quality of life and psychophysical wellbeing. Specifically referring to adapted disciplines, habitual practice often becomes an effective integration and self-efficacy booster. Among disabilities, visual impairment deeply alters body image perception, autonomy, and environmental/social interaction heavily reducing sport or leisure involvement opportunities. In particular, visually impaired women represent one of the most vulnerable categories to gender and disability discrimination. Moreover, even when congenitally sightless, they perceive social pressure of mainstream beauty ideals, mostly spread by media, comparable to their sighted peers. On these premises and the previously demonstrated psychophysical benefits of Italian blind baseball practice on this target population, the present study aimed to deepen the social and educative potentialities of such adapted sport applying a more sociological research approach.MethodsThe “red diamonds” event, namely, the first ever female blind baseball match, was the setting for the administration of our structured online survey. In detail, our survey comprised different evaluation tools such as the 18-item Psychological Well-Being Scale, the 12-item Short Form questionnaire, the Dresden Body Image questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and sociological model designed questions. Quality of life, psychological wellbeing, self-esteem, body image, and perceived female sport psychological violence were investigated in the whole women sample (n = 33) voluntarily adhering to the game.ResultsSurvey results revealed no statistically significant differences between visually impaired players (n = 13; mean age: 32.84 ± 12.05 years) and sighted on-field subjects (i.e., coaches, assistants, and referees; n = 20; mean age: 47.15 ± 12.31 years) in almost all the inquired variables, thus remarking the social and functional benefits of adapted sport through the “dual embodiment” and empowerment phenomenon.ConclusionsGiven that the event was inspired by and performed on the World Day against women violence, our study deepened not only the topic of disability discrimination but also the currently alarming gender-related one. In such a context, the present research might provide interesting cues for further investigations on disability and gender disparities in sports, hence spreading interest in this under-investigated field. In perspective, the “red diamonds” experience could also contribute to inspiring and progressively developing educative tools against any kind of discrimination by promoting integration and social growth through regular sports practice.

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Female blind baseball players against gender discrimination: the “red diamonds” experience

Carretti,

Russo,

Manetti

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…For example, supportive friends and family may aid in the empowerment process, while an empowerment theory outcome could be having power and control over personal circumstances in the face of obstacles [ 2 , 3 ]. Moreover, previous research suggests that feelings of empowerment in one setting may transfer to another [ 1 , 4 ]. Therefore, fostering and promoting empowerment in exercise may be a powerful mechanism to increase women’s empowerment in other areas of life.…”

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A Mixed-Methods Study of Women’s Empowerment through Physical Activities: Relationships with Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Levels

Streetman

Brown

Brin

et al. 2023

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Participation in empowering physical activities may increase self-efficacy and facilitate long-term engagement. This explanatory sequential mixed-methods study examined the relationship between physical activity empowerment, exercise self-efficacy, and engagement. Midwestern women (N = 147) aged 18–65, 90% white, completed an online cross-sectional survey that captured exercise engagement and self-efficacy for exercise. Participants entered up to five types of physical activities and ranked them from most to least empowering. Physical activities were coded by training type for statistical comparisons using independent t-tests. After survey completion, seventeen women completed a 30 min, 8-question semi-structured interview. Women ranked resistance training as the most empowering physical activity type (38%), followed by running (14%). Total and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and self-efficacy for exercise scores did not vary between women empowered by cardiorespiratory or resistance training (i.e., total physical activity t(136) = 1.13, p = 0.11; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity t(136) = 2.42, p = 0.06; and self-efficacy for exercise t(136) = 0.66, p = 0.07). Themes identified from the interviews included: (1) women’s physical activity participation barriers are gender-centric, (2) physical activity participation benefits extend beyond physical health, (3) some exercise types are more empowering than others, and (4) empowerment and enjoyment are closely related. Exploring empowerment in exercise may reveal mechanisms to facilitate exercise self-efficacy and engagement in physical activity.

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Desigualdades en el deporte femenil latinoamericano: revisión sistemática de barreras y oportunidades

Barrón-Luján,

Román García,

Ramírez Enríquez

et al. 2024

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Se realizó una revisión sistemática sobre las desigualdades en el deporte femenino en Latinoamérica. Utilizando términos clave como Desarrollo deportivo- Femenil, Sports-female-Latin América-Inequality, Equality-Sports-Women, mujeres deportistas- género-igualdad y equidad-desarrollo-deportivo-femenil, discriminación-deporte-Latinoamérica, y utilizando en booleano AND, se llevaron a cabo una búsqueda en diversas bases de datos como Scielo, Redalyc, Dialnet, Eric, Pubmed, Latindex y Ssoar. Los criterios de inclusión utilizados fueron, artículos sobre la igualdad y equidad de género hacia las mujeres deportistas en Latinoamérica, independientemente de la metodología utilizada, con período de publicación comprendido entre 2015 a la fecha, y en idioma espalo e inglés. Se encontraron en total 127 documentos, de los cuales se utilizaron solo 6 artículos para la revisión. Los resultados mostraron desigualdades hacia las deportistas latinoamericanas, la falta de instalaciones adecuadas y el apoyo insuficiente de parte del gobierno. Esta revisión destaca la urgente necesidad de abordar los desafíos de género en el deporte latinoamericano.

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Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

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References 46 publications

Female blind baseball players against gender discrimination: the “red diamonds” experience

Female blind baseball players against gender discrimination: the “red diamonds” experience

A Mixed-Methods Study of Women’s Empowerment through Physical Activities: Relationships with Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Levels

Desigualdades en el deporte femenil latinoamericano: revisión sistemática de barreras y oportunidades

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