Cheryl Cooky1, Marko Begovic2, Don Sabo3, Carole Oglesby4, Marj Snyder5
1Department of Health&Kinesiology and Women’s Studies, Purdue
University, USA
2NGO Inovativnost, Montenegro
3Department of Sociology, D’Youville University, USA
4Department of Kinesiology, California State University, Northridge,
USA
5Women’s Sport Foundation, USA
ŽENE I SPORT U CRNOJ GORI
ŽENE I SPORT U CRNOJ GORI
Sport Mont 2011, IX(28-29-30), 28-33
This paper is part of a larger study that identifies who plays sport in
Montenegro, and the factors (family, education, economic, religious, cultural
stereotypes, and so on) that contribute to girls and women’s participation in sport or
that limit girls and women’s participation in sport. This study is the first evidencebased
research assessing the current status of girls and women’s sport participation in
Montenegro, at all institutional levels. Using mixed-methodologies (quantitative
assessment, survey data and qualitative focus group interviews) this study will
determine the numbers of girls and women participating in sport, as compared to boys
and men in similar demographic categories, and to examine why girls and women do
or do not participate in sport and what are their experiences in sport.
Initial findings from the demographic assessment of sport in Montenegro
illustrate overall gender disparities in sport participation in the 7 most popular sports;
the majority of athletes, coaches, managers and decision-makers, medical staff,
referees and sport delegates were men. We found the greatest gender imbalance in
soccer and basketball, which were overwhelmingly male-dominated, and the greatest
gender parity in handball and volleyball- and in some cases there were more female
participants than male participants in these sports. We also examined overall trends in
gender and sport participation across the different geographical regions, which were
similar. However, there were differences in the types of sports men and women played
in the different regions, which may indicate that some sports were more popular, or
accepted, or easier to access for women in the central part of the country while other
sports were more popular, or accepted or easier to access for women in the northern
and southern regions.
The project is a collaborative partnership with US- and Montenegro based
scholars, the International Olympic Committee, the Montenegrin Olympic Committee,
the United Nations Development Program, the Office for Gender Equality of the
Ministry for Human and Minority Right of Montenegro, and NGO Inovativnost.
Reflections and insights on multi-institutional partnerships in the study gender and
sport participation will be offered. N/A
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