INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

off the gynaecological misconceptions in relation to sports
participation.
(c). The values of all religious bodies should influence activity
structuring and accessibility.
(d). The National Orientation Agency should massively educate
the public, stressing the values of sports participation as a
weapon of positive change in societal attitude.
(e). There should be more female administrators in the
formulation and implementation of sport policies and goal.
(f). A documentary on lives of successful female athletes should
be packaged and relayed by the mass media to propagate
women’s participation in sports.
(g). There should be an increase in the admission quota of
women in departments of Human Kinetics, Sport Science
and Physical Education for the production of more female
coaches, tutors, journalists, psychologists and physiologists.
(h). All international sporting bodies should evolve a policy of
having a 50% women representation out of their gross
participants (for periodic review) to assist nations in
promoting and enhancing women participation in sports.
CONCLUSION
The successful implementation of the above suggestions will bring
to a fulfilment in Nigeria the Article 2 paragraph 5 of the Olympic
charter which states ‘THE IOC STRONGLY ENCOURAGES BY
APPROPRIATE MEANS, THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN IN SPORT
AT ALL LEVELS AND IN ALL STRUCTURES, PARTICULARLY IN
THE EXECUTIVE BODIES OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS WITH A VIEW TO STRICT APPLICATION
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN’
(Mascagni Stivachtis, 2000).
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