@article{Piroska:265596,
      recid = {265596},
      author = {Piroska, Béki and Gábor, Géczi},
      title = {WOMEN ON ICE - GENDER EQUALIZATION},
      journal = {APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce},
      address = {2017-09-01},
      number = {1033-2017-2936},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2017},
      note = {DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2017/1-2/17},
      abstract = {In the last decades the women started to do sports which  were originally masculine (Pfister, 1990). The parity led  to the slow transformation of the old-school thinking about  the traditional roles of sexes (Hall, 1996). The main  questions of our investigation were whether the athletes’  thought of the figure skating and the ice hockey are  different according to their sport or to the existing  stereotypes in the Hungarian sport society. We used  semi-structured interviews to gather opinions of two  different gender type icy sports’ top women athletes  (figure skating and ice hockey) to see their viewpoints  about the gender equalization. We can verify Metheny (1965)  findings, that the social acceptance or refusal of women in  sports on the basis of traditional features is changing  slightly. Research questions were: Are there differences in  the childhood sport socialization processes of the  representatives of the two sports? What was the motivation  behind their choice of sports? Are there differences in the  gender identities of female athletes? What is the athletes’  opinion on one another and the representatives of the other  sport? Method was semi-structured in-depth interviews and  the samples were the members of the Hungarian women ice  hockey and figure skating national team. According to our  results family and siblings were decisive in the childhood  socialization process. Early age patterns do not seem to  have much influence on the selection of sport. Although  among water polo/ice hockey girls there were a few tomboys.  Among the ice hockey team members there were girlish girls  and boyish girls as well, but among the figure skaters  there were no one who was boyish. No differences can be  observed in their views on gender roles concerning for  example employment or housework.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.265596},
}