The perspective and mainstreaming of gender in the analysis of sports regulation: the case of Catalonia

ABSTRACT

Historically, women have suffered from the effects of inequality in most social, economic, political and cultural spheres. In this paper, discrimination against women in sport is analysed on the basis of a set of empirical data on the inequal participation of men and women in sport. In particular, three Catalan sports regulations are analysed. To this end, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is taken as our frame of reference; more specifically, two instruments that are proposed therein to reduce women’s inequality: the gender perspective and gender mainstreaming.

KEYWORDS:

• Inequality
• principle of equality
• gender
• sport
• women

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Funding

This work has been carried out within the framework of the research project: “Global Sports Governance, Lex Sportiva and Regulatory Autonomy: From Soft Law to Rights” [PID2020- 119089RB-I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033], funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency.