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The discourse of gender equality in youth sports: a Swedish example
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Movement, Culture and Society.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0638-7176
2021 (English)In: Journal of Gender Studies, ISSN 0958-9236, E-ISSN 1465-3869, Vol. 30, no 6, p. 713-724Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Two key value issues in youth sports development intersect in this article: 1) gender equality, and 2) the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns about their own participation. The purpose is to explore ?gender equality? as a topic of deliberation in Swedish youth sport, and specifically young sports person?s possibilities for speaking out about gender equality issues. The article draws on material from an interview study with 17 leaders and coaches, and 24 teenage athletes, with a particular attention on a focus group interview with three young badminton players. The findings indicate a dominating discourse about sport and gender that may contribute to undermine both the legitimacy of gender equality efforts and the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns. According to most leaders and coaches in the study, no problems with gender equality exist. However, some of the athletes voice experiences of injustice in their sports participation. At the same time, they indicated that talking about perceived injustice can be problematic in a sporting context. The article concludes that that there is ample room for creating opportunities for young athletes to systematically voice their concerns about their own participation, for example concerning gender (in)equality.

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Routledge, 2021. Vol. 30, no 6, p. 713-724
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Gender equality, youth sport, Sweden, discourse analysis
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Sport and Fitness Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-6728DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2021.1937082ISI: 000657963300001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:gih-6728DiVA, id: diva2:1589186
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