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H A N I A B A H A A
R A N A D O S S

W O M E N A N D S P O R T S
In light of the honorable Egyptian female and pursuit of excellence and they take
sports models who represent a source of them as role models, while some others did
pride for every Egyptian, and with the return not go deep into watching women's sports to
of sporting activity, the elite newspaper determine who are the unique and
team discussed the issue of women successful female athlete in sports activities.
practicing sports in Egypt. Random samples
of students were taken from the various Doing sports is a matter of whether you are
faculties at Cairo University, such as the male or female, so we intend to ask the
Faculty of Economics and Political Science, students about practicing sports, do they
Commerce, Arts, Engineering, Dentistry, and practice sports, or are they content with
Law. Also, the representation of males and watching and encouraging? All the students
females has been taken into account to who were interviewed had already practiced
present the different views and ideas, those sports, whether as a child or currently
interviews where held via Zoom. as a means of
practicing
sports
entertainment and not professionalism such
It was important to know whether they are as swimming, tennis, gymnastics, Strength
following women's sports or had they games, combat games such as kung fu and
previously followed it, so this was the first karate in addition to water ballet and other
question that was asked to the students, so sports, whether individual or team.
according to this question, the students
were divided into two sections. The first When the students were asked about
section was following women's sports such whether there are specific sports that are
as Water Ballet, Roller Skating, Tennis, predominantly female, then one team
Gymnastics, Strength Games, Women answered with “No” as they see that all
Football, and other sports while the other sports can be practiced, whether you are
section had never followed women's sports male or female, the issue is related to a
or was not interested in knowing sports person’s passion and his attraction to that
news in general. sport, not gender, while the other team said
“YES” there are sports that are
When there was a demand from most predominantly male, such as the Football
students who are following women's sports, and also there are predominantly female
it was necessary to know who is the female sports, such as water ballet and rhythmic
athlete that each student see her unique in gymnastics, they pointed to some reasons
sports activities, so they referred to many due to this phenomenon where some refer
honorable Egyptian models such as Farida to the customs and traditions of society and
Othman, Raneem El-Waily, Nour El-Sherbiny others said that the belief of males
nd praised their persistence, eagerness, themselves that this is inconsistent with

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