{"id":79131,"date":"2022-06-22T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=79131"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:41","slug":"mckee-rewriting-the-rule-books-ensuring-gender-equity-in-canadian-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/06\/mckee-rewriting-the-rule-books-ensuring-gender-equity-in-canadian-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"MCKEE: Rewriting the rule books: ensuring gender equity in Canadian hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor McKee, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/rewriting-the-rule-books-ensuring-gender-equity-in-canadian-hockey-183901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the need to examine the rule books to ensure gender equity in Canadian sport.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn recent years, gender equity in sport has rightfully received renewed attention. This is due in large part to the work of athletes, advocates, leagues, associations and governing bodies across Canada\u00a0who have expressed a continuing commitment to ensuring gender equity\u00a0in the form of increased opportunities, funding or ownership of the sports themselves.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite attempts\u00a0to rectify inequality in men\u2019s and women\u2019s sport,\u00a0inequity remains an insidious force\u00a0due to a discrepancy between the practical administration of male and female sport.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This imbalance can often be seen in the language of the rule book itself: a document that lays bare how gendered inequality has been embedded within the fabric of a sport.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, if the\u00a0Canadian government intends to keep its pledge to achieve gender equity in sport by 2035, it\u2019s time to examine rule books.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/rewriting-the-rule-books-ensuring-gender-equity-in-canadian-hockey-183901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor McKee, Assistant Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the need to examine the rule books to ensure gender equity in Canadian sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[7488,57,10657,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79147,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79131\/revisions\/79147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}