Following the publication of the research paper “Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching”, Professor Leanne Norman (and Richard Simpson) have published the open paper: Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport. Professor Leanne Norman posted… Read More »Gendered microaggressions towards the “only” women coaches in high-performance sport
This latest research has been undertaken by Danny McLoughlin of Run Repeat. The report includes the teams that participated in the most recent season of the English FA WSL, Women’s Champions League, USA NWSL, German Frauen-Bundesliga, French Division 1 Feminine… Read More »More Female Football Coaches than Ever Before, but Men Still Dominate
Below are the numbers & percentages of female Team Coaches selected as part of each sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to the official Team Canada information. Archery – 1 coach – 0 female coaches – 0% Artistic… Read More »Tokyo 2020: Team Canada Coaching Stats
Below are the numbers & percentages of female Team Coaches selected as part of each sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to the official Team GB information. Artistic Swimming – 2 coaches – 2 female coaches = 100%… Read More »Tokyo2020: Team GB Coaching Stats
Below are the number of coaching positions available within the team sports at the Tokyo Olympic Games. These include Head Coaching Roles and Assistant Coaching Roles: Artistic Swimming —- 69 coaching positions – 63 female coaches = 91% Baseball /… Read More »Number of Female Coaches in Each Team Sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. Representatives from each of the four home countries and UK Athletics were interviewed to explore their perspective and approaches towards the issue of gender equity within their high-performance coaching… Read More »Research Findings: NGB Approach is Fixing the Woman, not the System
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. The impact of the cultural and systemic issues have also impacted on the value ascribed to women by their governing bodies. There were a few examples of the coaches… Read More »Research Findings: Undervalued and Exploited within the System
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. This was a significant and recurrent theme across of all the 17 interviews. Professions have certain characteristics that differentiate them from crafts, occupations, or trades. It is not possible… Read More »Research Findings: A Lack of Professionalisation within High Performance Coaching
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. In addition to a feeling of being in the minority, many of the women described how gendered assumptions still shape the coaching culture across the NGBs and clubs. Such… Read More »Research Findings: Gendered Assumptions
With the Women’s Super League (the professional women’s football league in England) celebrating it’s 10th year (2021), we thought we’d take a look back over the history of the leagues female head coaches. The WSL has hosted some of the… Read More »10 Years of the Women’s Super League – Meet the Female Head Coaches