Sport Herstory of Women in Singapore
Lynn Embrey, Australia
This paper
discusses the first phase of an international project to evaluate the
beliefs,
values, attitudes, and experiences of women in sport in distinct cultural
settings in countries with different levels of promotion of women in
sport.
Singapore was chosen as the first nation in the project because it has
made important strides towards providing sport for all and sport for life
during three decades of nation building. Data was collected ion two stages
In the first stage subjects were recruited from a representative range
of groups associated with women's sport including the Association of Women
for Action and Research, National Sports Associations and professions such
as teaching. They completed completes a comprehensive questionnaire which
surveyed participation, availability of resources, orientation to sport/
fitness/physical activity, psychological factors, socialization factors,
employment status, attitudes, religion, barriers, leadership and values.
The second stage involves interviewing respondents whom self-selected into
either the participants or nonparticipants categories.
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