Football as an agent or tool to promote women and girls' empowerment: a case study of coaching for hope - Cape Town
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description: Football has been used as a tool for empowering women in numerous countries across the globe. This qualitative case study critically assesses the viability of football as an agent for empowering females. The study is based on Coaching for Hope's, "Empowerment of Women and Girls through Football" programme. Coaching for Hope (CFH) uses football as a vehicle to address issues, such as HIV/AIDS, drug and substance abuse, gender equity and other problems facing youth. CFH has partnered with a range of sports organisations which are committed to bring about social change through this programme. These organisations use sport as a means of engaging with, and supporting the upliftment of young people, who live in challenging social circumstances. The evidence, which has been distilled from numerous interviews, observations and documentary analyses in this study, indicates that women's participation in football activities is hampered by a number of factors. Previous studies note that gender blockages have deprived women and girls from taking an active part in football. Women face social, economic, cultural and educational challenges that ultimately hamper their empowerment process and which need to be addressed. Other challenges faced by women and girls include, social prejudice, religious issues, as well as gender domination. The findings of this thesis support these claims. The findings also point to the conclusion that participating in football is perceived to have a positive impact in health, community development, team building and problem solving. The respondents stated what they saw as the necessary conditions for sport to have beneficial outcomes. For example, the need for the programme to have clear goals and objectives, as well as effective plans for implementing and monitoring activities were some of the crucial conditions mentioned by the respondents. Their argument is that if you understand what you want to achieve and how you might achieve it, you will be able …
abstract: Football has been used as a tool for empowering women in numerous countries across the globe. This qualitative case study critically assesses the viability of football as an agent for empowering females. The study is based on Coaching for Hope's, "Empowerment of Women and Girls through Football" programme. Coaching for Hope (CFH) uses football as a vehicle to address issues, such as HIV/AIDS, drug and substance abuse, gender equity and other problems facing youth. CFH has partnered with a range of sports organisations which are committed to bring about social change through this programme. These organisations use sport as a means of engaging with, and supporting the upliftment of young people, who live in challenging social circumstances. The evidence, which has been distilled from numerous interviews, observations and documentary analyses in this study, indicates that women's participation in football activities is hampered by a number of factors. Previous studies note that gender blockages have deprived women and girls from taking an active part in football. Women face social, economic, cultural and educational challenges that ultimately hamper their empowerment process and which need to be addressed. Other challenges faced by women and girls include, social prejudice, religious issues, as well as gender domination. The findings of this thesis support these claims. The findings also point to the conclusion that participating in football is perceived to have a positive impact in health, community development, team building and problem solving. The respondents stated what they saw as the necessary conditions for sport to have beneficial outcomes. For example, the need for the programme to have clear goals and objectives, as well as effective plans for implementing and monitoring activities were some of the crucial conditions mentioned by the respondents. Their argument is that if you understand what you want to achieve and how you might achieve it, you will be able …
author: Chiyapo, Tebogo
language: eng
date published: 2014
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:22:44Z
provider: University of Cape Town
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Department of Sociology

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