TY  - EJOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Piroska, Béki
AU  - Gábor, Géczi
DA  - 2017-09-01
DA  - 2017-09-01
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.265596
DO  - doi
EP  - 146
EP  - 137
ID  - 265596
IS  - 01-2
JF  - APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
KW  - Health Economics and Policy
KW  - gender
KW  - female roles
KW  - gender identity
KW  - ice hockey
KW  - figure skating
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf?subformat=pdfa
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf?subformat=pdfa
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf?subformat=pdfa
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf?subformat=pdfa
N1  - DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2017/1-2/17
N2  - 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.
PY  - 2017-09-01
PY  - 2017-09-01
SN  - 1789-221X
SP  - 137
T1  - WOMEN ON ICE - GENDER EQUALIZATION
TI  - WOMEN ON ICE - GENDER EQUALIZATION
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265596/files/17_APSTRACT_2017_01-02.pdf?subformat=pdfa
VL  - 11
Y1  - 2017-09-01
T2  - APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
ER  -