Improving Gender Equity in Sports Coaching

ISBN-13: 9781032049120 / Miękka / 2023 / 260 str.

Opis

The overall purpose of Improving Gender Equity in Sports Coaching is to take an action or forward thinking approach about what works, or could work, to improve the recruitment, development, or promotion of women sport coaches.

Recenzje

"This is a timely and important book for the sports coaching community. Gender equality impacts upon all coaches and therefore all athletes. This accessible book will be of interest not only to academics, graduate students and undergraduates invested in redressing the gender imbalance across sports contexts, but also to coaches, coach educators and policy makers alike."

Dr Luke Jones, University of Hull

"This text should be a key point of reference for anyone wishing to gain more subject knowledge of the intersections of gender and sports coaching. Its strengths lie in its ability to unpack the complexity of the problem – the under-representation of women in sports coaching. It moves beyond homogenised notions of ‘women’ and ‘sport’ to look at different kinds of women’s experiences in various sporting contexts. It explores the challenges posed by this under-representation, drawing from different theoretical and methodological approaches. Finally, its contributions lie in its ability to move beyond the ‘problem’ and ‘challenge’ to offer solutions for all those interested in addressing this imbalance."

Dr Annette Stride, Principle Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University

Spis treści

Introduction – Bringing About Sustainable Change to Improving Gender Equity in Sport Coaching

PART 1: Setting the Scene: How Gender Inequity Manifests Itself in Sport Coaching Contexts and Why Change Is Needed

1. The Glass Cliff, Gender, and Sport Leadership: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis

2. Gender Stereotypes as Mechanisms of Social Exclusion of Women as Football Coaches

PART 2: Strategies for Supporting A More Gender Inclusive Sport Coaching Workforce

3. Transformational Change: Creating a New Culture of Sport Coaching

4. Barriers and Supports in the Career Trajectories of Graduate Level Female Sports Coaching Students

5. Can Sex-integrated Sport Provide a Gender Equitable Coaching Environment?

6. It’s on BOYS! University Coach Educators and the Production, Maintenance, and Disruption of Gender Structures

7. Gender Equity Policies in Sport in Practice: From Words to Action

8. Organisation Level Practices to Support Women in Coaching

Part 3: From Research to Practice: Evidence of Impactful Research That Has Contributed to More Gender Inclusive Sport Coaching Contexts

9. Shared experiences from the margins: Culturally diverse women in coaching in

Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom

10. Supporting and Developing Women in Sport Coaching: A Lifespan Career

Approach

11. An Evaluation of a Mentoring Programme to Support High-Performance Women

Coaches

12. Reflections on Career Development From Women Who Coach Canadian Elite Track

and Field Athletes

13. "If there were more women coaches around, I think things would be different":

Women Boxing Coaches’ Struggles to Challenge and Change a Male Dominated Sport

Environment

O autorze

Leanne Norman is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Social Justice in Sport & Society within the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Her research examines issues of gender equity related to sports coaching, sports leadership, and organisations. Her work is driven towards improving the participation, performance, and leadership pathways for diverse social groups, principally, different groups of women.