IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/onl/amjoce/v2y2019i4p202-209id343.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Determinants of Women Under-Representation in Sports at the University-The Case of Kenyan Universities

Author

Listed:
  • Janet Chumba
  • Simon Munayi
  • Jacob Nteere

Abstract

Under-representation of women in socio-economic activity in Kenya continues to raise eye brows. At University sports, while the world stage seems to have resolved this issue; in Kenya it still seems to be a major problem. The purpose of this study was to look at the determinants of under-representation of women in sports at Kenyan Universities. Sports departments in Kenya suggest that they offer the same opportunities for men and woman to participate in sports. So what are the factors that affect the disparity found in participation of women in sports at the university? This paper was an attempt to look at those factors that affect women participation in sports. The study used a descriptive survey research design. The study targets all 55 Universities in Kenya which had approximately 10,000 students involved in sports. Out of this, 300 students were purposively selected for this study. A questionnaire was used to seek for information from these students. The results indicate that there was a significant difference between males and female participation in different sports at the university. This was attributed to a number of factors. These factors included motivation, state of personnel that work in sports departments, facilities, and equipment.

Suggested Citation

  • Janet Chumba & Simon Munayi & Jacob Nteere, 2019. "Determinants of Women Under-Representation in Sports at the University-The Case of Kenyan Universities," American Journal of Creative Education, Online Science Publishing, vol. 2(4), pages 202-209.
    • Handle: RePEc:onl:amjoce:v:2:y:2019:i:4:p:202-209:id:343
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/ajce/article/view/343/513
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/ajce/article/view/343/968
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:onl:amjoce:v:2:y:2019:i:4:p:202-209:id:343. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Pacharapa Naka (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/ajce/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.