Published: April 30, 2012

Analytic Study of Poor Participation of Women in Games and Sports

Sunita Singh
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Ramesh Chand Yadav
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Dr.Mahendra Kumar Singh
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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to locate the causes of poor participation of women in games and sports. 20 physical education sports personnel/teachers of Varanasi and 30 women players from different games and sports from the different faculty/colleges of Banaras Hindu University were selected for present study. Questionnaire no. 1 considers five factors namely were sociological point of views, psychological point of views, physiological point of views, economical point of views, and other point of view (such as political, cultural and religious) on which opinion of girl players and athletes were asked. In addition to general descriptive statistics- mean and percentage were used for analysis of data. Women participation in games and sports was mostly affected by sociological factors, economical factors. The psychological factors, physiological factors, other factors (such as political, cultural and religious) were not affecting the women to participate in games and sports. The Attitude of most of the physical education and sports Personnel/teachers were positive about women participate in games and sports. Most of the physical education and sports Personnel/teachers were agreed that they have lack of funds and lack of facilities. About lack of interest of students they were not agreed and about administrator’s interest they were agreed that most of these administrators were not interested in games and sports.

Keywords
Women in Sports Economic Factors Attitude                                  
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