{"id":88642,"date":"2024-07-26T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/?p=88642"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:40:03","slug":"paris-2024-hits-gender-parity-but-africas-olympic-teams-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/paris-2024-hits-gender-parity-but-africas-olympic-teams-lag-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 hits gender parity, but Africa&#8217;s Olympic teams lag behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year&#8217;s Olympics is the first where gender parity has been achieved on the field of play \u2013 124 years after women were first allowed to compete.<br><br>Although the average Olympic team is evenly split between men and women, Africa has the lowest representation of women of all the continents, with women comprising only 44% of the average team.<br><br>There are, however, notable exceptions. Countries such as Angola, Cameroon, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Sierra Leone and Zambia are sending teams where women make up two-thirds of the athletes. Guinea-Bissau and Somalia will have no female competitors in Paris.<br><br>There was a spike in female participation at the Games in 1928, when women could compete in athletics and gymnastics. Since 1991, the Olympic Committee mandated that all new codes that apply for recognition must have female competitors.<br><br>\ud83d\udc41 <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/sports\/2024-07-22\/88505\/paris-2024-south-africa-at-olympics-7-charts\">TEAM SA IN PARIS: FULL STORY + 7 OLYMPIC CHARTS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1387],"tags":[21,1002,984,263,705,1001],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-88642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-the-outlier","tag-africa","tag-equality","tag-gender-equality","tag-gender-parity","tag-olympics","tag-sport"],"acf":{"big_number":"","big_number_caption":"","big_number_link":"","big_number_background":"","big_number_text_colour":"#000000","big_number_icon":false,"big_number_wide":"yes","featured_chart":{"ID":88510,"id":88510,"title":"Olympics-Africa-representation","filename":"Olympics-Africa-representation.png","filesize":44943,"url":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Olympics-Africa-representation.png","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/paris-2024-south-africa-at-olympics-7-charts\/olympics-africa-representation\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"The 2024 Paris Olympics marks the first time in history that gender parity has been achieved, 124 years after women were first allowed to compete in 1900. \nWhile globally, the average Olympic team is evenly split between men and women, Africa has the lowest representation of women among all continents, with women comprising only 44% of the average team.\nThere are, however, notable exceptions. 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