Women in coaching

Bruening, Jennifer E.; Dixon, Marlene A.; Burton, Laura; Madsen, Rachel

doi:10.4324/9780203132623.ch33

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“…Motherhood is not considered to be influential on women's decision to become coaches in the first place, but it becomes relevant in the decision of progressing to top-level positions and in the engagement, exit and energize stages. In addition to supporting previous literature suggesting that children caretaking is unbalanced between genders, 20,59 this study adds that uncertainty about the impact of motherhood on women's profession due to the lack of policies that may explain why they disrupt their careers when they decide to have children or slow their professional progress more acutely than their male counterparts. In this line, support strategies should be aimed not only to energize and support mother coaches in the workfamily conflict but also to support women who want to have children by supporting them during pregnancy.…”

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Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze

Borrueco

Torregrossa

Pallarès

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Framed in the Ecological-Intersectional Model and the Stages of Career Progression Model, the objective of this study was to explore how women coaching in high-performance settings advanced through the ‘bottle-neck’ path. In total 13 women coaches from Southern Europe between the age of 28 and 46 years working in high-performance contexts were interviewed. In order to assess both the subjective perceptions of participants and the structural factors that prevent women from accessing top-level positions, we adopted a critical realist perspective to perform a thematic analysis. Results show that while women coaches may follow a linear coaching career path in their early career stages, once they try to progress to high-performance settings their careers are shaped by the metaphor of a maze. Women need to navigate through a maze while having to overcome jeopardizing factors to find a succeeding career path in sports coaching. Moreover, previous experience as elite athletes, close entourage, role models, organizational support, precarious working conditions and motherhood influenced women's development of a coaching career, with differing relevance depending on the career stage. Women coaches who reach top-level positions associate their success with casual or external factors, instead of causal explanations related to their own achievements. We add evidence on the specificities of women's coaching careers that should be addressed not only to improve their recruitment and professional progression, but also to work on reducing the probabilities of women exiting the role.

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Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze

Borrueco

Torregrossa

Pallarès

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…In addition to scientific and research activity, and subsequent publications (e.g., Knoppers, 1987;Gieß-Stüber, 2009;Bruening, Dixon, Burton, & Madsen, 2012;Norman, 2012;Hargreaves & Anderson, 2014;LaVoi, 2016;Carson, McCormack, & Walsh, 2018), special professional journals contribute to the support of women in sport and at the same time to female coaches. In 1992, the Women in Sport andPhysical Activity Journal (1992-2019) began to be published.…”

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A Comparative Study of primary school teachers’ attitudes and opinions towards inclusive education in the South Moravian Region and Split-Dalmatian County

Stračárová¹

2020

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Kinanthropology

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The research is focused on teachers‘ approaches, opinions, and visions concerning inclusive education in the South Moravian Region and the Split-Dalmatian County. Further to that, it analyses the degree of Inclusion in these areas. The relationship of pedagogues towards Inclusion, due to a steep increase of specific disorders, is extremely important. The research was made in the year when the inclusive education bill was passed in the Czech Republic. Data was collected in the first school year when schools in Czech Republic functioned as in-clusive. Data collection took place in Split-Dalmatian county in 2016 and the South Moravian Region in 2017. The research is qualitative, an open-question questionnaire was made, and a non-structured interview was made when visiting schools. We set the following hypothe-ses. We assume that teachers of selected schools of the Split-Dalmatia County evaluate Inclusion more negatively than teachers of selected primary schools in the South Moravian Region. This hypothesis is not confirmed. We expect that Inclusion will take place in selected elementary schools in the South Moravian Region more than in selected elementary schools in Split-Dalmatia County. This hypothesis is not confirmed. This research is based on the methodology and data from the diploma thesis of Nikola Stračárová 2017 (Stračárová, 2017).

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Women in coaching

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Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze

Women coaches at top level: Looking back through the maze

A Comparative Study of primary school teachers’ attitudes and opinions towards inclusive education in the South Moravian Region and Split-Dalmatian County

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