Gender-Specific Research Premises for the Promotion of Women's Sports

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Abstract
Female involvement in sport has increased considerably, yet women's sport is placed second to men's. Sport sciences have contributed to perpetuating this situation. The methodology of comparing biological or physical factors of performance and capacity confirms male domination in sport. Quantitative differences are used to reconfirm ontological and evaluative statements about gender. Moreover, socio-psychic variables are rarely integrated into biological frameworks. Sex-specific role socialization becomes instrumental to physical capacity gaps between girls and boys at times when biological tests reveal different achievement levels. Interpretation neglects the broad range of overlapping performance results of the sexes.

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