Sport Nunavut’s gender equity policy: relevance, rhetoric, and reality

ID:	HARP-163
Title:	Sport Nunavut’s gender equity policy: relevance, rhetoric, and reality
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.21(3) Wint’02 pg 95-99
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Year:	2002
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, gender equality, governance, human rights, ethnic minorities, Northwest Territories (NWT), Inuit, eastern arctic, sports, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Abstract:	On April 1, 1999, the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada’s largest territory, was split in two forming Nunavut, Canada’s third territory as well as an Inuit homeland. That day marked a new beginning for the residents of the eastern arctic, as well as the formation of Canada’s newest Territorial Sport Federation (TSF), Sport Nunavut. Sport Nunavut followed the path of the other two TSFs in drafting a Gender Equity Policy. The creation of Sport Nunavut’s Gender Equity Policy is due in part to two other documents: the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both of which support the notion of the benefits of universal values. The implementation of Sport Nunavut’s Gender Equity Policy has been problematic; while the new policy exists on paper, it has frequently been ignored in Nunavut communities. Using Nussbaum’s framework of universal values and her adaptation of Sen’s “capabilities approach,” along with Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this paper will show that Sport Nunavut’s Gender Equity Policy is contingent on prescribed whitestream, Western notions of feminism and gender roles.
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