Last year on 8th of march that is on Women’s day, we witnessed the rise of women in cricket. It was the T-20 world cup final between Indian and Australian women’s cricket team. But the question arises here is that do women get equal importance in sports as compared to men? If we talk about India then surely the answer will be NO. It is Indian mentality which proscribe women to make career in sports. According to this deep rooted cause (Indian mentality), womans are born for to become housewives. This is the main reason why Indian women are far behind in sports.
While Indian boys play cricket, football, volleyball, run and cycle, whereas Indian girls don’t have such wide range of choices when it comes to sport. It seems this is dictated , at least in part by the wider sexism and gender biases that exists in India. Even many men say that Wrestling , Boxing , Kabaddi , Weightlifting are unsuitable games for women. Disparity between male and female is also a major cause for disparagement of women sports. Women who play sports face many obstacles such as lower pay, less media attention as compare to their male counterparts. Due to this many professional athletes hold second jobs in addition to their sporting duties. Female professional players play in lower quality, subtle facilities than male professional athlete and generally have lower fan attendance at games.
The solution to vanish this Indian mentality for women is SCHOOL . Yes its school where the passion for sport Is born. Instilling sportsmanship and being neutral towards men and women as well as promoting girls in sports are some of the grassroot level decisions we need to take.
But in spite of all these reasons for not playing sports many women are making us proud by their performances globally. Some Indian women seem to be made of much sterner stuff, breaking the gender stereotypes to rule the global arena when it comes to sports like Boxing , Gymnastics , Wrestling , Cricket. They have made us proud by winning many international titles including in the Olympics , Commonwealth and Asian games.
Many Indian sportswomen who demonstrate the grit, determination and a lot of heart which obviated the obstacles in their path to success, Mary Kom is one of them. As a five-time world amateur Boxing champion and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each of the six world championship. She is a testimony to the fact that Indian-woman are here to stay in world athletics. When Mary took boxing in early 2000s , she was castigated by her father who told her that she shouldn’t expect to get married given the abuse she was putting her body and face under. But she didn’t quit and continued to compete and now the whole world knows her.
In India we don’t have any scarcity of talent but we need to put that talent into right place and giving them what they deserve.
Labhesh gupta
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