Improving gender equity in sports coaching / edited by Leanne Norman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norman, Leanne, editor.

Series:

Women, sport and physical activity.

Women, sport and physical activity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coaching (Athletics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

The sport coaching profession has historically been and continues to be a White male-dominated occupation and this remains a global issue. This imbalance persists despite an improvement in wider social attitudes and legislation towards equality and diversity within many societies, and despite the action by sporting organisations and national governing bodies. Within the research literature, the underrepresentation of women in sport coaching is a well-documented issue with a number of research studies highlighting the experiences and impact of being in the minority for women coaches. The issue of gender inequity in sport coaching is a long-standing one and shows little sign of changing significantly anytime soon. Therefore, a new approach is needed, one that draws on the knowledge and evidence we have to create actionable, sustainable, deep-rooting interventions that challenge the issue of gender equity at its very core. The overall purpose of Improving Gender Equity in Sports Coaching is to take an action or forward-thinking approach about what works, or could work, to improve the recruitment, development, or promotion of women sport coaches. The book brings together a global group of esteemed scholars working in this subject area. In this book, we have brought together not just the insight but also a collection of strategies and recommendations as to how this research could be or has been utilised to make our sport coaching envrionment places where all coaches feel as though they belong. As such, this ground-breaking book is a must read not just for students and researchers of gender equity in sport but also for policy and decision-makers working in sport.

Contents:

The glass cliff, gender, and sport leadership: a narrative review and meta-analysis / George B. Cunningham

Gender stereotypes as mechanisms of social exclusion of women as football coaches / Torsten Schlesinger, Florian Ingwersen and Yvonne Weigelt-Schlesinger

Transformational change: creating a new culture of sport coaching / Guylaine Demers, Cari Din and Penny Werthner

Barriers and supports in the career trajectories of graduate-level female sports coaching students / Stephen Harvey and Letitia Price

Can sex-integrated sport provide a gender-equitable coaching environment? / Donna de Haan and Lucy Dumbell

It’s on boys! University coach educators and the production, maintenance, and disruption of gender structures / Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Laura Purdy and Lolita Dudeniene

Gender-equity policies in sport in practice: from words to action / Susanna Soler, Ingrid Hinojosa-Alcalde, Pedrona Serra and Ana Andrés

Organisation-level practices to support women in coaching / Laura Burton and Ajhanai Newton

Shared experiences from the margins: culturally diverse women in coaching in Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom / Julia Symons

Supporting and developing women in sport coaching: a lifespan career approach / Nicole Lavoi and Courtney J. Boucher

An evaluation of a mentoring programme to support high-performance women coaches / Luke Norris, Nicola Clarke and Leanne Norman

Reflections on career development from women who coach Canadian elite track and field athletes / Larena Hoeber and Laura Dahlstrom

“If there were more women coaches around, I think things would be different” : women boxing coaches: struggles to challenge and change a male-dominated sport environment Jorid Hovden and Anne Tjønndal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-302864-0

1-000-42652-1

1-003-02864-0

1-000-42658-0

9781003028642

OCLC:

1257667785