Gender Stereotypes From Playing Sports

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When looking at the research done and collected above, one notices quite quickly that major differences can be found between the countries and that women do have different prospects of playing sports. It starts at the school and their PE classes. In Sweden, everyone is allowed to have PE and boys and girls mix, however, that is not the case in India since they do not mix those classes. As mentioned, this division is based on old traditions in India that are supposed to limit physical contact between men and women. If one looks at it from a liberalist feminism perspective, one can see that this is something that goes back to how women has been viewed in the past, and this might limit girls from playing the sport they wish to play. They were

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