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Soler, Susanna; Moragas, Marta Ortiz; Vilanova, Anna

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“…Board members perceived the skewed gender ratio in sport governance as normal because board positions were considered "men's work" (Claringbould & Knoppers, 2012, p. 409). In addition, directors have argued that women, having more childcare and household responsibilities, were ideal for board roles at local sport clubs -significantly less prestigious than those at national or international level -because of their caring and nurturing experience (Soler et al, 2019).…”

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“…Included are, besides two sport-specific case studies, 11 country-or nation-specific analyses from four geographic regions. They are from Southern Europe: Turkey (Şahin Karaçam & Koca, 2019), Spain (Valiente, 2019), and Catalonia (Soler et al, 2019); from Eastern Europe: Poland (Jakubowska, 2019) and Hungary (Gál & Szabó Földesi, 2019); from North-Western Europe: Germany (Hartmann-Tews, 2019), Netherlands (Claringbould & van Liere, 2019), England (Piggott et al, 2019), and Scotland (Dennehy & Reid, 2019); and from Scandinavia: Norway (Fasting & Sisjord, 2019) and Sweden (Hedenborg & Norberg, 2019). Their focus is at a national level, investigating typically boards of National Sport Federations, National Olympic and Paralympic Committees, and National Sport Councils.…”

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A decade of tracking women's participation in the governance of international sport federations

Adriaanse

2024

Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

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A woman has never led the International Olympic Committee (IOC) or the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football's world governing organization, yet. They are widely recognized as the two most influential and prestigious bodies in the realm of sport. Men have always assumed the role of President of the IOC since its inception in 1894 and of FIFA since its formation more than a century ago (FIFA, 2021; Olympic Museum, 2021). While women's participation in the Olympic Games and on the football field has surged in the past decades, women's representation in their governance remains a critical issue. Not only for the IOC and FIFA, but more broadly, achieving gender diversity on boards of International Sport Federations (IFs) is a challenge.In this chapter I investigate women's participation in the governance of IFs from 2012 to 2021. It's the culmination of a ten-year research project, which started with the Sydney Scoreboard, a legacy of the 5th World Conference on Women and Sport held under the auspices of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) in Sydney in 2010. The Sydney Scoreboard, a global campaign, aimed to track the number of women in sport governance in a transparent way and, thus, become an impetus for increasing the number and voices of women effecting positive social change in sport (Adriaanse & Claringbould, 2016). I provide an analysis of the gender distribution on IF boards with reference to three key indicators: the number of women within total board members, the gender of the president, and the gender of the secretary general. The focus on IFs is salient because these boards govern their specific sport at the highest level, making strategic decisions for hundreds of thousands -in some cases, millions -of participants globally. The aim of this chapter is to examine to what extent change has occurred in the past decade and what challenges remain for women's participation in global sport governance. WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN SPORT GOVERNANCECentral to this study is the concept of sport governance, which has emerged as an essential component of any modern sport organization. Sport governance refers to the practice of governance applied to organizations in the sport sector ranging from the community to the professional level (Hoye & Cuskelly, 2007). It involves respon-

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A decade of tracking women's participation in the governance of international sport federations

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2024

Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

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Women in sports leadership: A systematic narrative review

Evans

Pfister

2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Gender inequity in sport organisation boards, particularly in decision-making positions, remains a significant issue. Considerable research exists on the topic yet attempts to integrate non-academic perspectives on this literature are relatively limited. We present a systematic narrative review, constructed in conjunction with the work of a ‘reflective panel’ which included sport, business and academic professionals from Europe and North America. The panel helped to inform the search strategy and reflected upon the narrative produced. In total, 154 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and grey literature publications were included. The resultant narrative is presented according to several scales of abstraction; macro-scale studies of global/national trends; meso-scale studies of processes (re)producing gender inequity; and microscopic studies of lived experiences of gender inequity. There is consensus in the literature that, globally, women continue to be under-represented in leadership positions. Patriarchal selection practices and organisational cultures reinforce this inequity, despite evidence that men in leadership roles recognise the problem. While gender equity policies exist, actions to pursue gender equity are more limited. Patriarchal language, gendered stereotypes and person-profiling still persist, resulting in specific emotional and practical challenges for women in sports leadership positions. The reflective panel recognised an over-representation of studies from a liberal ‘Western’ tradition that conceptualises gender inequity in a specific socio-cultural and political way. Studies also often overlook the effects of the intersectionality. Finally, we suggest areas for further research, including a need to understand the electoral procedures of sports organisations beyond ‘formal’ channels, to better understand women’s lived experiences of inequity and to investigate the experiences of women who either step down or are not appointed to leadership positions.

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The sociology of sport in Spain: Development, current situation, and future challenges

García

Moscoso-Sánchez

Piedra

2020

Sport Und Gesellschaft

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SummaryThis article presents the development and current situation of the sociology of sport in Spain. It begins with a brief description of its origins and development as an academic field, which can be divided into three stages: birth, growth, and consolidation and internationalization. It then describes the theoretical and methodological traditions as well as the predominant topics (including the most representative research) in the social scientific studies on physical activity conducted so far in Spain. The main topics have been sports in society, sports controversies, the social sports structure, sports identities and spaces for practicing sports, organization, management, and the job market. The article concludes with an analysis of the possible future challenges for the sociology of sport in Spain and the role that the journal Sociología del Deporte (Sociology of Sport) can play in view of these challenges.

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A decade of tracking women's participation in the governance of international sport federations

A decade of tracking women's participation in the governance of international sport federations

Women in sports leadership: A systematic narrative review

The sociology of sport in Spain: Development, current situation, and future challenges

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