From Playing Football to Gender Equality: Empowering Women in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

增强妇女权能对于实现两性平等至关重要。这一研究项目将探讨如何通过比较通过政治平等自上而下强加平等与通过妇女踢足球自下而上建立平等的效果来实现这一赋权。它将侧重于里约热内卢Rocinha贫民窟和布宜诺斯艾利斯Villa 31定居点的妇女，她们代表了巴西和阿根廷的大部分穷人。特别是，它将探讨妇女通过代表权和立法实现政治平等如何对社会中最贫穷妇女的生活产生影响。这将与妇女在踢足球时形成的特点进行比较，这些特点可以从球场上带走，并在日常生活中赋予她们经济上的权能。

The empowerment of women is essential for achieving gender equality. This research project will explore ways to achieve this empowerment by comparing the effect of imposing equality from above, through political equality, with building equality from below,in the form of women playing football. It will focus on the women in the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro and the Villa 31 settlement in Buenos Aires, who are representative of the large segments of poor Brazilians and Argentinians. In particular, it willexplore how women achieving political equality, as expressed by representation and legislation, has an impact on the lives of the poorest women in society. This will be compared with how the characteristics that women develop playing football, can be taken off the pitch and empower them economically in their everyday lives.