https://www.scmp.com/rss/510321/feed Dr Michelle O’Shea is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Her research interests are in the areas of sport, culture and society, involving the critical examination of professional and non-profit sport organisation functioning addressing issues relevant to gender and diversity, sport organisation community and societal impacts, sport marketing and social media communications. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If you believe the hype from the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be a “landmark in gender equality” and the “first gender-balanced Games in history”. The Olympics do not have a good track record when it comes to gender equality. At the end of the 19th century, when it was founded, the modern Olympic movement deliberately excluded women. Games patriarch Baron Pierre de Coubertin argued an Olympiad with women would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3141345/tokyo-olympics-are-first-gender-balanced-games-really-win-women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3141345/tokyo-olympics-are-first-gender-balanced-games-really-win-women?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:59:45 +0000