Even today, top women athletes are dealing with unfair and outdated regulations which infringe on their rights to bodily autonomy. Earlier this week, the Norwegian Beach Handball team was fined by the European Handball Federation for wearing shorts rather than bikini bottoms, although men are allowed to wear loose fitting shorts four inches above the knee.
You might be thinking, what do all of these incidents have in common? It is disappointing that women are still fighting to wear what they want and exist in their bodies without external policing or judgement.
The first time for female athletes to participate in the modern Olympic Games was the second Olympic Games in Only free male Greek citizens were allowed to participate in the 1st modern Olympic Games as well as the ancient Olympic Games.
According to the IOC International Olympic Committee , only 12 female athletes participated in the second Olympic Games out of the athletes from 19 countries.
They competed in only two events which were golf and tennis. In the 3rd St. What are your most notable memories of past Olympics? Share in the comments below! Not Drinking Enough Water? Our Community. Shop Now Save the wildlands with us! A Timeline of Women in the Olympics. Athletes Editors Pick Muuvment women in sport. The performance of the Pole Halina Konopacka at the discus throw was especially noted In Amsterdam, female athletes competed for the first time in the metres, metres, metres, and high jump.
It was only in the s and s, following directives from the United Nations affirming that sport was favourable for health and the disappearance of sexist stereotypes, that the presence of women at the Olympics was encouraged. Nevertheless, the share for each sport still reflected gendered prejudices: until , skiing had the largest number of female members, surpassed at the time by tennis, which made its return to the Olympics after being absent since ; in , track and field was only in tenth place, while equestrian sports held their position in fourth place.
The effects of gender have also always been present in the composition of the IOC: exclusively masculine until , it retained a male majority until the end of the century. The European Union approves of this orientation, which connects with its own: after organizing the Gender equality in sport conference in Vilnius in , the European Commission published in its Strategic Actions on Gender Equality in Sport. That same year, the 11th recommendation of the IOC which at the time was one third female was added to the Olympic agenda, making gender parity an objective.
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