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Social Exclusion
Revising rugby structures to include more nuanced models for performance development, including commensurate support for the women’s game both in financial sense and in terms of identity could enhance safety and performance in women’s rugby.
Constraining gender norms, the inferiorisation of women’s athletic achievements
Organisational support and cultural acceptance are predicated on conformity to masculinist models of performance and behaviour whilst preserving the ideals of femininity.
Women conducting these bodily actions are considered contrary to the cultural feminine ideals (Pfister Citation2010) and run the risk of being scrutinised and subjected to sexism and homophobia (Dane, Foley, and Wilson Citation2023)
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We’ve come a long way since 1991 when four pioneering women; Deborah Griffin, Sue Dorrington, Alice Cooper and Mary Forsyth took it upon themselves to organise the first Women’s Rugby Union World Cup
International Rugby Board who told them women’s rugby is a ‘participation and not a spectator sport'
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According to Hargreaves, ‘there is a historical basis for the idea that there should be “feminine appropriate” sports and “masculine appropriate” sports’Footnote2 and rugby is not ‘feminine appropriate’.
the number of female members has steadily increased since France hosted the 2007 rugby union World Cup (a 35% increase)
Women's sports have had an eventful history composed of rejections, struggles, prejudice and then slow recognition. For a long time, men had a stronghold on the sports sphere and women were kept out of sports
The players themselves do not associate their sport with risk. This danger is felt by their circle and French rugby's actors as physically and socially risky
More than half of female rugby players say homophobic and sexist jokes deter many girls from playing the sport
This research is believed to be the first in the world to quantify, through surveys, the impacts of homophobic and sexist attitudes, stereotypes, and discrimination. Interviews were also conducted to understand their experiences playing the sport and investigated their attitudes on a range of topics.
37% heard homophobic slurs at their club in the last year and 59% heard sexist slurs and negative jokes about women
Jo Evans agrees. “We still struggle to be accepted and be treated equally by others in rugby and I often wonder whether people who buy into the stereotypes or tell casual jokes about us believe that “real” women and girls would not want to play rugby, so we must all be lesbians or want to be like men.”
Women’s sport in the UK is seeing record viewership and attendances, increasing grassroots engagement, and new professional pathways
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 is using the tournament as a platform to help people from underrepresented backgrounds enter the sports industry
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