Teaching Games For Understanding

The essay will discuss whether Sport in New Zealand has had a positive influence on gender relations and does it creates opportunities for women? The discussion will focus on information from research, readings and personal experiences.

Gender is a social phenomenon which shapes our sense of personal identity, the nature of our everyday interactions with others and the sets of social relations embedded in institutions such as family, the workplace, the school, the state, the media and sports.
“Gender is something that societies make” (Court & O’Neill, 2001, p.7).
The writer acknowledges that gender relations are fluid and dynamic ,they are constantly changing within times and places. That is part of the answer; however we as a country need to evolve and improve our gender relations. Sport is a vehicle for promotion and or regression of these principles.








The majority of the literature in the area of ‘gender and

sports’ has come from the USA and the...