"Women in the Olympics, Over Time"

By CATHERINE RAMPELL

"Last week Saudi Arabia announced that it was sending two women to the London Olympics, making this the first Olympic Games in which every country taking part is fielding female athletes.

Women will account for about 40 percent of the 10,500 athletes at the London Olympics. That’s about the same gender breakdown as in the last two Olympic Games. It’s also about twice the share women represented four decades ago, according to Goldman Sachs.

Here’s a chart from a recent Goldman Sachs report on the economics of the Olympics, which I wrote about in an earlier post:

Source: Sports Reference, Goldman Sachs Global ECS Research."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/women-in-the-olympics-over-time/?ref=women

De groeiende aanwezigheid van vrouwen op de Olympische Spelen geeft aan dat het de goede richting uitgaat met vrouwen in de sportwereld, maar zoals de talloze voorbeelden in onderstaande artikels illustreren, zijn we er nog lang niet:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympics/female-canoe-racer-takes-olympic-inequality-to-court/article4426727/

http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/even-title-ix-women-athletes-still-face-inequality-125700584.html

http://healthculturesociety.wikispaces.com/Women+in+Sport-+Gender+inequality+alive+and+well+on+the+sporting+field!

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/20/world/asia/olympic-flights-gender/index.html?hpt=hp_c2