| Paper title: |
FEMALE PRESENCE IN THE MAIN STRUCTURE OF THE OLYMPIC MOUVEMENT |
| DOI: | . |
| Published in: | Volume II issue 2/ 2009 |
| Publishing date: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 56-60 |
| Author(s): |
LEUCIUC Florin-Valentin |
| Abstract. | The IOC has made women’s participation in sporting activities and the Olympic Games – and by implication in administrative and sports authorities – one of its major concerns. At the same time, in 1994, the Olympic Charter was amended and now contains an explicit section on the need to work in this direction: (The IOC) “strongly encourages, by appropriate means, the promotion of women in sport at all levels and in all structures, particularly in the executive bodies of national and international sports organizations with a view to the strict application of the principle of equality of men and women” (Rule 2, paragraph 5). |
| Keywords: | female presence, Olympic Movement, Olympic Games, promotion of women, the principle of equality |
| References: |
1. Davenport, J. “The women's movement and the Olympic Games”, Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1978. 2. DeFrantz, A. L. “Progress made, pitfalls and conditions for further advancement of women in the Olympic movement”, in Landry et al., 1991. 3. Hay, E. “Considerations of women's sport”, Olympic Review, 1977. 4. Lunzenfichter, A. “Women and Olympism”, in Report of Sessions - International Olympic Academy 36 19 June-2 July, 1998, Olympia: International Olympic Academy, 1998. 5. “Women in the Olympic Movement”, in Report of the Women and Sport Working Group, 2004. |
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