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
The FCN have teamed up with ALTIS for this year’s International Women’s Day to celebrate the community of female track and field coaches around the Globe. Female coaches in Track & Field are often a rarity, particularly at the elite… Read More »Celebrating Female Track & Field Coaches for #IWD2021 with ALTIS
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. The existing coaching culture and broader systemic issues in the sport, coupled with the minoritised status of most women coaches have an emotional and relational cost for such individuals… Read More »Research Findings: Unequal and unsafe relationships with male coaches
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. The other consequence of a lack of professionalised coaching system is that it is a breeding ground for same- sex, informal yet powerful exclusive networks. This ultimately works against women coaches… Read More »Research Findings: Closed and Exclusive Networks
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. The culture of ‘poaching athletes’ was a frequent theme in the data. This is a similar finding to previous research that found such an issue in relation to Black… Read More »Research Findings: A Culture of ‘Poaching’
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. It is evident from the statistics and data that women represent a numerical minority within athletics coaching at all levels of the coaching pathway. This numerical imbalance was… Read More »Research Findings: Feeling Minoritised
Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K The aim of this present study was to: map the composition of the athletics coaching workforce in the UK, understand the experiences of high-performance female coaches working within their… Read More »The Coaches Perspective: ‘Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K’
Statement by UKA CEO Joanna Coates regarding the Findings of the FCN Research Paper ‘Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. First published on UKA website. “Firstly, I would like to thank the Female Coaching Network… Read More »UKA CEO Joanna Coates Statement Regarding the Findings of our Research
Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K As part of our research project, we gathered insight from a sample of high performance female coaches, GB level athletes and home country NGB representatives. It is intended that… Read More »Recommendations of our Research ‘Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K’