Authors
Amit Shakya
Abstract
In worldwide, sustainable development can also be achieved by the women’s empowerment that is an important goal. Here, the term of ‘Empowerment’ defines as to increase the educational, political, gender, spiritual, social or economic strength of communities and individuals. Recently, sports and physical activities have been gained the recognition in the field of empowerment of girls and women. Through education, sports, and physical activities, women could be empowered and have equal opportunities as the men in different fields. For girls and women, involvement in sports and physical activities can potentially offer a white range of life benefits. On a large scale, women’s movement as a strategy has not been used in the field of sport and physical activities. Sports and physical activity may be made the women’s and girls’ empower (by increasing the confidence and self-esteem) and disempower (in which women feel inadequate or convince them that their body needs tore-work and flawed). In this paper, discuss the women empowerment, its benefits, and the inequalities of women in sports and physical activities. Keywords: Women’s Empowerment, Sustainable Development, Inequality
Introduction
Everyone has benefited by doing the regular and enjoyable physical activity due to which improve the social, mental, physical and spiritual well-being health for students and players. In physical activity, school play an important role to participate by young people’s for the activity and have a programme that will include time for daily play and it provides the structured and unstructured physical activities recreation and sport (PUNZOO 2017). In the world population, women are more than men, but women have less in number than men in sports and physical activity. Women’s are retarded from actively participate in sports and physical activities by facing the various challenges. By some research, identified the barrier but they are not success to remove this barrier due to which women’s are not taking the part in sport whether a club level, community level and elite level (Abisha and Vincent 2015).
Recently, sports and physical activities have been gained the recognition in the field of empowerment of girls and women in worldwide (PUNZOO 2017). Everyone lives in the world, if any image changes occurred in women’s sports then it is not surprisingly. Women’s were not socially permitted to participate in sports and physical activity in some places, for example, women’s are not allowed to participate in sports in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taiban regime in 2001 and in Saudi Arabia, girls and women’s are banned to participate in sports and physical education. Saudi Arabia is one of the countries in which girls and women’s are not participating in the athlete to the Olympics but now has changed the overall image towards the girls and women’s, they cannot participate only in sports but they can in overall excel (Surender, 2017). First International Organization “Women Win” focus on the services that provide support for innovative sports and physical activity programme by which empowerment and social movement are creating around the sports for the advancement of rights of women (PUNZOO 2017).
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