The International Olympic Committee has given a priority to sports organizations` initiatives to improve women`s actual attainment of roles and positions, in particular leadership, across the organizations` administration and governance. Analysis of good practices/policies that include empirical evidence of change/improvements within NOCs and national sports federations in the Global South. Achieving effective gender equality in sport has become a global need for all the agents involved in the process, in order to guarantee an integral practice that promotes the well-being of the protagonists. One of the tools used by organizations that aim to reduce the gender gap in sport is to understand the main conditioning factors that interfere with equitable practice. In many cultures combat sports are incompatible with the constructed ideal of femininity where fighting is associated with male strength, thus creating gendered power relations (Hovden & Tjønndal, 2017; Kavoura et al., 2015). The main objective of this study aims to evaluate the conditions of effective equality in the practice of women's wrestling.
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