Visión y propuestas con perspectiva de género para el progreso del olimpismo en Colombia

Abstract

Introduction: Historically, such progress as there has been in gender equality within the Olympic Movement is the result of women’s advocacy for equality of opportunity and conditions. However, Sports Organizations’ understanding of equality in this context has often focused only on numerical equalization of male and female competitors. Due to this, international studies related to gender equality within the Olympic movement highlight the need to implement gendermaintreaming processes from a holistic understanding of the International Olympic system and governance structure. Principal Objective: In this sense, it is imperative to examine progress in gender equality at the Colombian National Olympic Movement. Methodology: For this, sport good governance indicators and principles specifically associated with the promotion of gender equality from the National Sports Governance Observer for the Colombia country report, were analyzed. Results: The various results, showed a national pattern of “gaps & lacks” without any positive result in the implementation of measures aimed at promoting gender equity within the Colombian national sport context due to the historical and cultural assumption that sport promotion and democratization is a gender-neutral objective, which has been translated into large women and girls ´rights “gaps & lacks” inside the Colombian Olympic Movement. Conclusion: There is a need for the Colombian National Olympic institutions to implement a gender mainstreaming strategy in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of every policy, strategy, program or action in order to remove the additional barriers women and girls have historically faced to access and experience Olympism philosophy of life.