Reason behind that women withdrawal in sports in India
Social problems of women in Indian society. The Constitution guarantees women's equality, but their real freedom is limited by custom. Economic and emotional dependence of women on men. Sports activities are not encouraged in a traditional Indian family.
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Sri Pushpam College (India)
Department of physical education, health education and sports
Reason behind that women withdrawal in sports in India
Dharakeswari S., ass. professor
Introduction
India is sports loving country and historically women have been the torch bearers in many Asian and World Games and Sports. India is also a being conservative and tradition-based country where women have always found it difficult to participate in sports on a regular basis.
In India many people worship women as gods even though they do not give equal right to them. To be born as a woman in Indian society was considered as unfortunate. Due to these reasons' women in India face lots of social issues. It starts from mother womb itself as many people think that women are a burden to their family (parents and husbands). Women can't live independently especially in Tamil Nadu and therefore they are considered as a stigma. Women are guaranteed equality under the constitution of India but the ground reality is not completely true. The birth of a girl child is not celebrated and there is a belief that a girl child is inferior and subordinate to men. Women are made to depend on men for both economic and emotional support. The birth of a boy child is celebrated because they are superior. People here think that boy child is an asset for the family. They think that they have capacity to earn. Women are spoken as superior but they are treated as inferior. They have much restriction to go out of their homes.
Both girls and boys in India are guaranteed of education up to age 14. Boys are encouraged to continue their education. But many parents of girl children insist on giving more importance to domestic chores as her duty and do not send the girl child to school because of various reasons and also sometimes if the teacher is a male.
Keywords: withdrawal, social issues, stigma, trauma
Problems faced by sports women in India
Sports is one area were gender differences are very evident. It is deplorable that even in modern days, women are treated poorly. Women especially from India are still seen as home-makers and child-rearing machines.
Participation in sports remains gloomy for most women in India. Major issues are social, psychological, financial and family related problems. The life of female athlete is like a hurdle race every day. It starts from a very young age. Though girl children, when very young are permitted to play outside their homes, as they grow the restriction on them playing outside gradually increased. There after the girl child is hardly seen or encouraged to participate in any form of play or physical activities. Many girls are systematically and forcefully discouraged from participation in vigorous sports activity or body contact sports. Hence talented and potential medal winners at the National and International level could be lost due to such regressive mindset and attitudes conducted a study on perceived exercise benefits and barriers of females who exercise regularly and those who do not exercise regularly. In her study, family discouragement was identified as one of the main reasons for women not getting involved in physical activity.
Wearing sports costumes can also be a factor in discouragement of women from participation in sports. Especially women from rural background cannot wear tight and appropriate sports attire. They are constantly mocked for wearing revealing clothes or for being dressed like men and so on. As the girl child grows the consciousness of her body becomes higher and in an already conservative atmosphere, wearing clothes that is not to the liking of her family and friends will tend to affect her further.
There is a perception that if women are involved in sports for a long time they lose their femininity and they are teased for being more masculine than feminine. reveals Most athletes are unable to bear the trauma. Some even commit of suicide, some withdraw ending their sports career forever.
Sexual harassment of sports women is also a cause for women to drop out of sports many women athletes do not express their problem and they do not protest against harassment immediately, because their parents will not allow them to continue in sports. There are many evidences of women athletes who kept silent for a long period and after which they opened out it was one of the major reasons for the women to dropout of sports.
Many of the sportswomen are from rural areas where there is serious lack of infrastructure. There are no proper grounds, equipment's or even was he rooms, change rooms and these are serious problems faced by women in rural areas. This could be another reason for women getting dropped from sports.
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Conclusion
The Indian constitution has given equal rights to women. Indian women have potential to do many things but still due the above-mentioned constraints they are not able to produce higher number of good quality sportswomen. Some of the women like Saina Newhall, Mary Kom, P. Sindhu are few of the women sportspersons who overcome the challenges to reach the top, but many of them are who could not, end up being drop outs.
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