Human Rights and Sports Policies Affecting Girls and Women

This 1984 summary was created by Helen Lenskyj for the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAW+S) and the Sport Canada Women’s Program. In the summary, Lenskyj discusses the differences between two approaches to the equality of sexes in sports: integration and separate-but-equal. The summary also interrogates myths of “female frailty” in sports, emphasizing human rights and equality within Canadian sports.

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