Young women in sport: understanding leadership in sport

Schull, Vicki D.

doi:10.4324/9781315542775-7

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“…While the career paths of collegiate coaches can vary and requirements for experience and certification are not standardized in the coaching profession, the research clearly shows that former athletes are more likely to become coaches than any other population (Schull, 2017), supporting the assertion that female athletes comprise the most likely candidate pool for increasing representation of women in athletic leadership. In an examination of the development of successful sport coaches at the high school, community college and NCAA Division I level, Gilbert, Côté and Mallet (2006) found that coaches had accumulated thousands of hours of "pre-coaching" experience via participation as athletes.…”

Section: Early Career Paths In Sport Coachingmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…As Schull (2017) notes, increased participation rates would seem to "bode well" for gender equity in sport leadership. However, despite the increasing athletic capital and experience of girls and women, gender parity in sport leadership remains elusive (Schull, 2017). In 2016-2017, less than half (41 percent) of collegiate women's teams were coached by women, compared to more than 90 percent in 1972 (Acosta & Carpenter, 2014; "Head coaches: 2016-2017 overall figures", 2017).…”

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Are Women Coached by Women More Likely to Become Sport Coaches? Head Coach Gender and Female Collegiate Athletes’ Entry into the Coaching Profession

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LaVoi

2019

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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A plethora of research on barriers facing women in the coaching profession exists, but less attention has been devoted to female student-athletes’ transition into coaching. Some research suggests that female athletes who are coached by women are more likely to become coaches. In the present study, existing research is extended by examining the relationship between collegiate female basketball players’ post-playing career behavior and the gender of their collegiate head coach. Two research questions are addressed: (1) Are female collegiate Division-I basketball players who are coached by female head coaches more likely to enter the coaching profession than athletes who are coached by men? And; (2) If female basketball players do enter coaching, are those who were coached by women more likely to persist in coaching? Collegiate head coach gender did not emerge as a significant predictor of athletes’ likelihood to enter coaching, but logistic regression indicated that athletes who did enter coaching were 4.1-times more likely to stay in coaching if they had a female head coach. This study extends the scarce and outdated body of research on the potential salience of same-sex coaching role models for female athletes and provides baseline data on collegiate athletes’ entry rate into coaching, lending support to advocacy aimed at reversing the current stagnation of women in the sport coaching profession.

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Section: Early Career Paths In Sport Coachingmentioning

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Are Women Coached by Women More Likely to Become Sport Coaches? Head Coach Gender and Female Collegiate Athletes’ Entry into the Coaching Profession

Wasend

LaVoi

2019

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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“…For example, although gender equity education is a key component of many sports management education programmes (e.g. Sauder et al, 2018), the lack of mentoring for women moving into sports governance roles outside formal education is considered a problem, including amongst athletes (Schull, 2017) . The combined consequence of all the shortfalls and inequalities outlined above is the reproduction of unequal selection practices, or ‘access discrimination’, which can deny women access to positions (e.g.…”

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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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“…In youth sports in the United States, only about 27% of coaches are women, with that number holding steady over the past few years (The Aspen Institute, 2019a). Despite decades of increases in girls' and women's participation, sport remains a highly masculinized space where women are underrepresented in coaching and leadership positions at all levels (Gosai et al, 2022;Norman, 2016;Norman & Simpson, 2022;Schull, 2017), including youth sports (LaVoi, 2009(LaVoi, , 2014The Aspen Institute, 2019a). The gendered history of sport means that traditional notions of masculinity are often played out and reproduced on the playing field and masculine notions of leadership are deeply embedded in coaching (Norman, 2016;Schull & Kihl, 2019), making gender a salient construct to consider in sports leadership and coaching (Kroshus et al, 2015;Leberman & LaVoi, 2011;Leberman & Palmer, 2009;Norman, 2016;Schull, 2017).…”

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Gender Differences in Coaching Behaviors Supportive of Positive Youth Sports Experience

McCleery

Tereschenko

et al. 2023

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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In the youth sports domain, few coaches are women, masculine ideologies permeate the culture, and coaching practices do not always align with behaviors supportive of positive youth sports experience. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in men’s and women’s coaching behaviors associated with creating positive youth sports experience, including behaviors that create a safe and fun participation environment, a mastery motivational climate, and autonomy-supportive coaching. A total of 219 youth and high school coaches across different sports in one county in a western state responded to the survey—29% of them women. Along with the overall dearth of women in coaching, we found differences between men and women in the types of coaching positions they hold and the behaviors they bring to their coaching. Female coaches were more likely to be paid, primarily part-time, and they were also less likely to have children. Using a multivariate analysis of variance, significant mean vectors were found between female and male coaches in the four coaching behaviors measured. Women’s ratings were significantly higher on individual measures for autonomy and safety. As the coaching field comes to better understand the approaches that lead to positive youth sports experience, these findings raise important questions about why women and mothers are not a larger proportion of the coaching landscape and how that might change.

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Young women in sport: understanding leadership in sport

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Are Women Coached by Women More Likely to Become Sport Coaches? Head Coach Gender and Female Collegiate Athletes’ Entry into the Coaching Profession

Are Women Coached by Women More Likely to Become Sport Coaches? Head Coach Gender and Female Collegiate Athletes’ Entry into the Coaching Profession

Women in sports leadership: A systematic narrative review

Gender Differences in Coaching Behaviors Supportive of Positive Youth Sports Experience

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