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
Special Jennings is a basketball coach in the US. She is currently the Girls Head Coach at Montverde Academy High School, Florida. Special’s previous position was Associate Head Coach at The University of Illinois at Chicago, spending two years there… Read More »Special Jennings – Interview
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
Laura Turner-Alleyne is a Track & Field coach based in the U.K. She has accrued over 20 years of experience in Athletics, from grass roots through to her senior athletic career as a GB International Sprinter and medallist on the… Read More »Laura Turner-Alleyne – Interview
Wes (Lesley) Blair is a Netball Coach based in Warwickshire, England. With more than 24 years coaching experience having worked for England Netball for ten years as well as coaching a number of teams including the University of Wolverhampton’s netball… Read More »Wes Blair – Interview
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
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 organisations, understand the impact of gender diversity amongst coaches on high-performance… Read More »The Athletes Perspective: ‘Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the UK’