WOMEN IN GREECE in the field of sports KALLIOPI FASOLI KONSTANTINOS THYMIANIDHS ALEXANDRA TSIAKOVI
Women as Change Agents
The Ancient World
Women's right to vote Women's right to vote is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 19th century, in addition to women working for broad economic and political equality and social reform, women tried to change voting laws to allow them to vote. National and international organizations were created to coordinate efforts to achieve this goal, notably the International Women's Alliance Women who owned property gained the right to vote in the Isle of Man in 1881 Most major Western powers extended voting rights to women during the interwar period, including Canada (1917), Britain and Germany (1918), Austria and the Netherlands (1919) and the United States (1920). Notable exceptions in Europe were France, where women could not vote until 1944, Greece (1952) and Switzerland (1971).
The first woman MP Lawyer and politician. The first Greek woman to be elected to Parliament. Eleni Papachristou, as her maiden name was, was born in 1896 in Volos, where she completed her secondary schooling. In 1915 she settled in Thessaloniki with her family and studied vocal music. In 1950 she received her law degree and started practicing law after her husband Dimitrios Skouras. On 31 January 1953 Eleni Skoura takes the oath of office and delivers her maiden parliamentary speech. The Speaker of the Parliament, Ioannis Makropoulos, addresses her as "Mrs. MP", which leads to a debate on whether this term should be introduced for women members of the Greek Parliament. Eleni Skoura remained a Member of Parliament until 1956 and developed parliamentary activity in the areas of social and women's issues. She was awarded the Military Medal of Exceptional Deeds and the Brigadier General of the Royal Order of Merit.
Callipateira
Her life Callipateira
was the first citizen without an institutional role, who defied the death penalty to watch her boxer son Peisidorus fight at Olympia.
Coming
from an athletic family from Ialyssos, Rhodes, her father Diagoras, her three brothers Akousilaos, Damagetos, Dorieus and her nephew were Olympians, either in pankration or in boxing.
When
Callipateira became a widow, she had no choice but to take over the preparation of her son Pisidoros to compete in Olympia.
Diagoras
was in fact a periodonikis, meaning he was one of the few athletes who had won Olympic Games, at Isthmia, Nemea and Pythia. He even had the reputation of not avoiding blows, but accepting them and responding with stronger ones.
The revelation of her identity
So she travelled from Rhodes to Olympia, and when she arrived there, she did all the preparation disguised as a man! In the same disguise she watched Pisyrodus fight and win.
Unfortunately for her though, while jumping off the podium to go to her son to celebrate, her cloak got caught revealing her secret! She was immediately arrested and taken to court.
The trial There, despite her crime, the jury did not sentence her to death as they should have according to the law, but considering it blasphemy to kill by throwing a daughter, mother, aunt and sister of an Olympic champion by throwing her over a cliff, they acquitted her. It is speculated that taking on the costly and demanding preparation of her son played a role, and the moving apology of the Rhodesian woman left no room for the judges to show a hard face. All the more so when there were statues of her father and brothers scattered around the sanctuary.
Since then, however, in order to prevent a similar event from happening again, it was decreed that the gymnasts should also enter the stadium area naked! Since then, the Gallipateira has been an enduring symbol of women in their right to equality and equal treatment with men.
Modern Age
With the passage of time the image of women has changed substantially. Women used to perceive themselves as less dynamic and autonomous, mainly because they were obliged to stay at home and not to work, but only to deal with the upbringing of the children, with "household chores", and their personal needs took a back seat. Thus it was the man who had the most power from an economic point of view and not only. It was he who had the role of the "predator" who claimed his "prey". In recent years things have changed and the position of women has changed on the social chessboard. The woman now works, earns her own money and does not hesitate to claim everything she wants. These changes are best reflected in the issue of marriage, and more specifically in the fact that women in recent years have been getting married at an increasingly older age.
. The priority for them is not always family, but professional recognition and financial independence. As far as men are concerned, it seems that they have lost their role as 'hunters' and stand awkwardly before the new role of the independent and dynamic woman.
The man often feels weak as he sees that the woman can now manage on her own and that she does not need him as much. This reality is in stark contrast to the dominant image of the past where the man was the master of the game. In today's reality, the balance is very delicate, as husbands and wives are often in a competitive position.
Another example of the change that has taken place in recent years is the fact that women are much easier to decide on divorce than in the past. She is now financially independent and does not hesitate to take risks despite the cost. But she realises that she can continue her emotional and sexual life and get back on her feet again. The modern woman is called upon to respond to multiple roles, that of wife, mother, working woman, good housewife. In her efforts to fulfil all these roles and to be 'right', as society demands, she is often pressured, stressed and exhausted.
The need that emerges is for the woman to maintain the delicate balance required between her obligations as a mother and homemaker on the one hand and as a worker on the other. At the same time, she should never forget her role as a woman. She should not be absorbed by the various responsibilities at work and at home and forget that she is also a wife and that she should devote the required time to this part of herself as well.
The Athletic Field
Sofia Sakorafa She
started playing sports at the age of 15. On 26 September 1982 at the international meeting Venizelia-Chania, he achieved a world record with a performance of 74.20 metres.
This
performance remained a national record until the introduction of the new type of javelin, when all records were reset.
She
remained the world record holder in open track and field until 13 June 1983 when Tiina Lilac broke it in Tampere, Finland, with a performance of 74.76 metres.
In
total she achieved the national record 17 times, improving it by a total of more than 30 metres.
Anna Veroulh
She started playing sports at the age of 14 and retired from active participation in 1993, at the age of 36.
The most important moment in her career was her winning the gold medal at the 1982 European Athletics Games in Athens with a performance of 70.02 metres (the first gold medal for a Greek woman in the event), followed a year later in Helsinki with the bronze medal at the 1st World Athletics Championships with 65.72 metres.
She also participated in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, where she again failed to qualify for the final, with performances of 57.60 metres and 59.56 metres respectively.
Voula Patoulidou In her first participation in She excelled several times
the Olympic Games, in 1988 in Seoul, she placed 15th in the 100 m. On 5 August 1992, she won the Olympic gold medal in Barcelona in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.64, shouting "For Greece, damn it!". It was Greece's first gold medal in athletics since 1912.
Two years earlier, at the Balkan Games, she won gold medals in the 100 m and 100 m hurdles. At the 1991 Mediterranean Games she won the gold medal in the 100 m. After her victory in Barcelona she changed her sport and
at the National Athletics Championships. She was first at the 1995 Bruno Julie in the 100 m hurdles, at the 1990 Balkan Games in the 100 m and 100 m hurdles and at the 1994 Balkan Games in the long jump.
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