“…However, the papers in this special issue clearly confirm that the state of affairs for women coaches is not fair and not improving, and, in fact, "women are losing ground" (Banwell, Kerr, & Stirling, 2019, p. 128). Despite the fact that many formal barriers have been removed through policies and legislation, the scholars in this issue have illuminated that implicit and entrenched bias remains (Clarkson, Cox, & Thelwell, 2019;Fink, 2016). While it might appear that by simply increasing the numbers of women who enter coaching, and remain in coaching, we would arrive at a solution, an "adding women and stir" approach is not the answer and on its own is insufficient (Madsen & McGarry, 2016), as we know that "it doesn't matter how successful you are, at some point people will still say something pretty down about you" (Allen & Reed, 2019, p. 104).…”