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Leading the way: women’s experiences as sports coaches

West, Amanda, Brackenridge, Celia, Green, Eileen and Woodward, Diane (2001) Leading the way: women’s experiences as sports coaches. Women in Management Review, 16 (2). pp. 85-92. ISSN 0964-9425 (Submitted)

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Abstract

Explores women’s under-representation from sports coaching roles in general and from high status roles in particular. In depth interviews were carried out with twenty women who coached one of the following sports: cricket, gymnastics, netball, squash or swimming. A purposive sample ensured that the coaches reflected different levels of commitment to coaching. Anne Witz’ model of occupational closure, used by her to analyse the medical profession, provided the basis for analysing the women’s experiences as coaches. Analysis of the interview data revealed that exclusionary and demarcationary strategies operated to limit women’s access to coaching roles. Such strategies included gendering the coaching role as a masculine role and closing access to networks of coaches. Women challenged such strategies through inclusionary and dual closure strategies by drawing on their coaching qualifications, their experiences as competitive athletes and the successes of the athletes whom they coached.

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Depositing User: Amanda West

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Item ID: 3332
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1108/09649420110386610
ISSN: 0964-9425
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/3332
Official URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=09...

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Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2013 09:40
Last Modified: 24 Jan 2013 09:40

Contributors

Author: Amanda West
Author: Celia Brackenridge
Author: Eileen Green
Author: Diane Woodward

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Nursing and Health Sciences > Department of Sport and Excercise Sciences

Subjects

Social Sciences > Sociology

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