A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Sport Advocacy Groups in Canada and the United States

Comeau, Gina S.; Church, Anthony G.

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“…However, the decision was reversed four weeks later following significant pressure from the media and women's football community. This example reinforces the real threat facing elite women's clubs but also the power that advocacy can have (Comeau & Church, 2010).…”

Section: Footballmentioning

confidence: 62%

The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Clarkson

Bowes

Lomax³

et al. 2021

The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport

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The coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 prompted widespread global lockdowns as the world looked to contain and reduce the impact of the virus, including a pause on most sporting competitions (Parnell et al., 2020). Covid-19 has greatly affected the world, exposing stark inequalities, especially across gendered lines, in areas of society such as the labour market, domestic responsibility, and economic hardship (Alon et al., 2020). Sport is a crucial, interwoven aspect of society and like wider societal trends, elite women's sport has been adversely affected by the pandemic, facing an existential threat (Bowes et al., 2020; Clarkson et al., 2020a;Rowe, 2020). The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of how the pandemic is negatively impacting a wide variety of elite women's sports. Specifically, we cover sports where women have traditionally existed on the margins of the sport and could be considered as male-dominated labour industries. Centring primarily on the United Kingdom (UK), we present a brief chronology of the impact of the crisis on elite women's sport, across football, rugby, cricket and golf -in many ways different to the men's versions -spanning the eight months since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 until the time of writing in November 2020.Throughout, the chapter utilises qualitative data from elite sportswomen encouraged to share their experiences during the pandemic (see Bowes et al., 2020). Subsequently, this chapter concludes with a summary of the challenges for women operating in (semi-)professional sports environments.

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Section: Footballmentioning

confidence: 62%

The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Clarkson

Bowes

Lomax³

et al. 2021

The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport

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“…Within different countries around the world, women sport leaders (and their male allies) pushed for more participation and leadership opportunities in every level of sport -for example, in the United States, the push for and passing of the landmark legislation of Title IX in 1972 that bans sex discrimination in educational institutions whether in academics or in athletics and the establishment of the Women's Sport Foundation (WSF-US) in 1974 as a leading research and advocacy organization. In Canada, in this same period of time, we see the first-ever National Conference on Women and Sport (1974) out of which emerged the creation of Sport Canada's Women 's Program (1974) and, eventually, the establishment of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAWS) in 1981 (see Comeau and Church 2010). In the United Kingdom and continental Europe, similar organizations bloomed -in the United Kingdom, the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF-UK) was established in 1984 and the Working Group for European Women and Sport (EWS) network was established in 1989 (a full standing body of the European Sports Conference by 1993).…”

Section: The Women and Sport 'Movement'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sport and Social Movements

Harvey¹,

Hörne²,

Safai³

et al. 2014

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Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), peace and the environment and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship. Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice.

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“…However, unable to ignore the potential distorting effects of these priorities (see Canada and Best, 1992; Dubin, 1990), Sport Canada made concerted efforts to promote the value of an ethical sport sector. During this period it adopted a number of initiatives, such as the endorsement of an ‘athlete-centred’ model to formalize athlete representation on national sport organization boards and the funding of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) (see Comeau and Church, 2010).…”

Section: Creating Public Value In Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building legitimacy at Sport Canada: pitfalls of public value creation?

Sam

2011

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Legitimacy building is an increasingly recognized feature of bureaucratic practice under networked governance. Mark Moore's (1995) model of 'public value creation' captures the strategic imperative to build credibility, legitimacy and support for policies and programmes in this context. As an emerging 'narrative' in public organizations, it combines perspectives on managerial and political leadership and is therefore useful to explain bureaucratic experiences with legitimacy building and their implications for policy. This article investigates the efforts of Canada's federal sport agency to secure legitimacy and explores the implications of public value creation on future policymaking. Drawing from interview data as well as public and internal documents, the study outlines Sport Canada's initiatives to establish sport's 'benefits', collaborate widely and add value in terms of equity and ethics. Two related implications (or storylines) are considered and discussed: (a) the tendency for public value creation to reduce the policy sector to anecdotal understandings in the eyes of political authorizers, and (b) the propensity for building public value to result in over-commitment due to the accumulation and embedding of new collaborations, mandates and target populations. Points for practitionersMark Moore's 'public value' approach resonates with practitioners because of its realist portrayal of politics in public administration. Generating support and legitimacy for existing or proposed policies and programmes is acknowledged to be particularly important in contexts where networks are prevalent. This article investigates legitimacy building within federal sport, a sector which has been reliant on networked governance since its inception and where substantive efforts have been aimed at raising its profile. The case cautions against persistent case-building and public value creation because continuous justifications may ultimately raise questions regarding the credibility of bureaucratic advice and of the likely success of programme commitments.

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A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Sport Advocacy Groups in Canada and the United States

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Sport and Social Movements

Building legitimacy at Sport Canada: pitfalls of public value creation?

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