Feminization of sport audiences and fans? Evidence from the German men’s national soccer team

Meier, Henk Erik; Strauß, Bernd; Riedl, Dennis

doi:10.1177/1012690215612457

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“…Equality of opportunity and involvement in sports leagues following may look quite different for different generations of women, with younger age groups more likely to exhibit more increased levels of following. These findings are supported by Meier et al (2017) who found increased feminization of consumption and team identification among younger women in Germany, arguing this group has 'been subject to less restrictive gender role socialization' (p. 729).…”

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Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?

Gemar

Pope

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding patterns of women’s sporting consumption and historical trends in the potential growth of this fandom. Using large-scale survey data from Canada from 1990 through to 2015, and employing quantitative methods of latent class and regression analysis, this study seeks to redress these issues by testing the ‘feminization’ thesis of increased women’s sporting fandom over the past three decades. In addition, we consider whether women’s fandom has become increasingly ‘omnivorous’ over this time period and the nature of this consumption today. Results show support for the feminization thesis. These findings are significant as through the use of quantitative methodologies we evidence the narrowing gender gaps in professional sports following between men and women, and women’s increasingly omnivorous consumption of sports. However, we find substantial gender gaps and inequalities in omnivorism by which the evidence suggests increased socio-economic and cultural barriers to omnivorous consumption of sport for women. We suggest that these women omnivores may be able to utilize their sporting knowledge in an instrumental way for benefits in various social settings, especially workplaces. It is hoped that this article will pave the way for further quantitative studies on women sports fans across different contexts.

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confidence: 77%

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?

Gemar

Pope

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…A report by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) from 2013 shows that 43% of women and 48% of men take part in sport and recreation activities, whereas 18.9% of Polish women and 21.8% of Polish men do it on a regular basis (GUS 2013). Women are more frequently sport consumers both directly and via the media (Meier et al, 2015, Clark et al, 2009. According to the research by the Institute for Market and Social Research, in 2012, 64% of women in Poland declared watching TV sports news, and a year later, 74% (IBRIS, 2014).…”

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Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

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Mazur

2017

Studies in Sport Humanities

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During the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Polish female representatives won sig-nificantly more medals compared to men. This fact made the authors examine whether female athletes received proportionate media coverage compared to men. In the course ofresearch, articles from the two largest Polish dailies were analysed (“Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Fakt Gazeta Codzienna”). With the use of content analysis, 197 articles were analysed in order to check whether any quantitative and qualitative differences can be observed in describing women's and men's sport. The results show underrepresentation of press coverage regarding women's sport. The results of qualitative analysis also point to a number of differences when portraying women's and men's sport.

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“…Not surprisingly, Danish research shows that female fans of male football teams use various strategies for constructing and negotiating their gender performance in the sports arena (Lenneis and Pfister, 2015). Notwithstanding these counteractive forces, scholars suppose there is an increasing ‘feminization’ of the sport crowds in many European countries (Mintert and Pfister, 2015; Pope, 2011; Pope and Williams, 2011), which according to German research by Meier et al (2015) is related to changing gender roles in society.…”

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The gender gap in sport event attendance in Europe: The impact of macro-level gender equality

Lagaert

Roose

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper studies the gender gap in sport event attendance-characterized by higher male and lower female participation-using a macro-sociological and cross-national comparative approach. We argue that because gender is produced and justified in the realm of sport, gender gaps in sport event attendance may be more pronounced in some societies than others, depending on the position women and men have in the particular context in which someone 'does' his/her gender. So, in addition to individual attributes, one has to consider the societal, macro-level gender equality in order to understand the individual-level gender inequalities in sport event attendance. Using multilevel analyses on Eurobarometer data (2007), we evaluate whether the size of the gender gap in sport event attendance varies across European Union (EU) countries and how this variation relates to societal gender equality, as measured by the Gender Equality Index of the European Institute for Gender Equality. We find higher male than female attendance in all EU countries, but also conclude that higher levels of macro-level gender equality are associated with smaller gender gaps in sport event attendance.

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Feminization of sport audiences and fans? Evidence from the German men’s national soccer team

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?

Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

The gender gap in sport event attendance in Europe: The impact of macro-level gender equality

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