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Title: TACKLING THE ISSUES

Reference number: 3796

Date: 1989

Production company: Commedia Film Link

Sound: sound

Original format: U-Matic (lo-band)

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 53.00 mins

Description: A video about girls and women who are struggling to overcome the barriers of one of the male bastions of sport: football. [Two versions of the same production on the one tape - only one has the Hailes United segment].

Intended for classroom use with back up materials looking at attitudes of masculinity and femininity.

See also refs: 3792, 4390, 3791

Credits: comm. Dougie Donnelly

Shotlist: [From donor's notes] This package on girls and women in sport is aimed at schools, youth clubs and anybody who wonders why women get a raw deal in sport. In order to focus the viewer's interest we have produced a video about girls and women who are struggling to overcome the barriers of one of the male bastions of sport: football. Various experiences of girls and women involved in football plus interviews with Scottish football stars, and the story of Hailes United, a community five a side team reaching the position of top of the Scottish Women's Football Association 2nd division (53.00)

[Two versions of the same production on the one tape - only one has the Hailes United segment]