{"id":527164,"date":"2010-04-14T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/getting-in-shape-is-a-privilege-sport-for-women-in-the-developi\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T07:20:00","slug":"getting-in-shape-is-a-privilege-sport-for-women-in-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527164","title":{"rendered":"Getting in Shape is a Privilege: Sport for Women in the Developing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/ask-a-fitness-expert\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ask a Fitness Expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/04\/right-to-play-mozambique.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/>We&#8217;ve all heard that fat is a feminist issue, but how many of us have considered that physical activity is a feminist issue? <\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/13\/does-your-relationship-need-sex-every-day\/2009\/12\/22\/how-i-stay-fit-exercise-psychology-unit-university-of-toronto\/\" >Exercise Psychology Unit<\/a>, we do research on how best to get people more active and enjoy the benefits of physical activity. However, when I watch news coverage about recent natural disasters, I am reminded that access and opportunities to engage in physical activity and sport can be a taken-for-granted privilege that is not always available outside western countries. Sadly, I have learned that due to political, socio-economic, cultural and religious barriers, many girls and women who live in socio-economically-deprived regions that are war-torn, gender-oppressed, and racist, lack these very same opportunities to be active that we so readily enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/getting-in-shape-is-a-privilege-sport-for-women-in-the-developi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Getting in Shape is a Privilege: Sport for Women in the Developing World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/getting-in-shape-is-a-privilege-sport-for-women-in-the-developi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19437791\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/14\/getting-in-shape-is-a-privilege-sport-for-women-in-the-developi\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Happiness, Health, Ask a Fitness Expert We&#8217;ve all heard that fat is a feminist issue, but how many of us have considered that physical activity is a feminist issue? At the Exercise Psychology Unit, we do research on how best to get people more active and enjoy the benefits of physical activity. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}