Women coaches of color

Carter‐Francique, Akilah R.; Olushola, Joyce

doi:10.4324/9781315734651-6

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“…The findings of the NCAA (2015) report are not surprising because it affirms the shared career experiences and barriers women of color (e.g., Black females) incur in society (Bell, 1990;Crenshaw, 1989;Holmes & Frye, 2016;Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003;Mays, Coleman, & Jackson, 1996;Scarborough, 1989) and in sport (Abney, 2007;Abney & Richey, 1991;Borland & Bruening, 2010;Carter-Francique & Olushola, 2016;McDowell, 2008;McDowell & Carter-Francique, 2017;McDowell & Cunningham, 2009;Price, Dunlap, & Eller, 2017). For example, prior to the NCAA's report, Abney and Richey (1991) examined the state of Black female administrators and coaches and found that they experienced access and treatment discrimination based on their race and sex, political and social ideologies rooted in hegemonic traditions, and a lack of representation and/or persons with the cultural competence to be sensitive to marginalized persons.…”

Section: Sense Of Belonging In College Sportmentioning

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Is excellence inclusive? The benefits of fostering Black female college athlete's sense of belonging

Francique¹

2018

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The purpose of this research note is to urge intercollegiate athletic departments and their administrators to foster a sense of belonging amongst Black female college athletes to aid in their felt membership as a college athlete and support their development as viable employment candidates in college sport. Black female college athletes’ graduation rates are on the rise; however, these being hired at dismal rates in college sport. By fostering a sense of belonging, Black female college athletes as a historically marginalized group are able to feel a sense of connectedness in the athletics and greater university environment; athletic departments commit to major organizational change that values diversity and inclusion; and through its commitment, a culture of inclusive excellence is felt by all students, faculty, staff and athletic administrators and coaches. Keywords: Black female college athletes, college sport, intercollegiate athletics, sense of belonging, diversity and inclusion, inclusive excellence

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Section: Sense Of Belonging In College Sportmentioning

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Is excellence inclusive? The benefits of fostering Black female college athlete's sense of belonging

Francique¹

2018

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“…This lack of representation of women coaches of color in comparison to their White counterparts shows the relevancy and significance of both structural and political intersectionality discussed earlier (Crenshaw, 1991). On one hand, the underrepresentation of Black women as head coaches of women basketball programs manifests the implications of structural intersectionality as it demonstrates how different social factors like gender and racism work together to negatively impact coaching opportunities for women of color (Rhoden, 2012;Carter-Francique & Olushola, 2016). On the other hand, this lack of representation exposes the need for political intersectionality, revealing how by providing more head coaching opportunities to White women over women of color, Title IX as a policy and a political project, might have failed to enact gender equity for women of color in athletics.…”

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Title IX and Career Pathways of Coaches Across NCAA Women’s Basketball Programs: An Intersectional Approach to Human Capital in Hiring

Gerretsen,

Chahardovali,

Brooks

2023

JIS

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The purpose of this article is to examine the career pathways of NCAA women basketball coaches after the passage of Title IX, with a special attention to the relationship between human capital (i.e., job related qualifications), race, and gender of coaches in the sample population. As such, we looked at job related qualifications of incoming and outgoing coaching hires from 1984-2020 at universities within the Power Five Conferences and HBCUs at the Division I level, considering nine different variables. These variables include a coach’s immediate previous position, number of years as an NCAA coach, years of overall coaching experience prior to hire, highest prior division coached, NCAA championship win as a coach, NCAA championship win as a player, highest level of play, highest division played as an athlete, and highest educational degree. Regarding the overall impact of Title IX on women head coaching opportunities, our data shows relatively consistent opportunities for female coaches across the Power Five Conferences and Division I HBCU schools since 1984. Although the opportunities for women were consistent, they do not seem equitable at the Power Five level when considering a coach’s race as Black women were hired at a much smaller rate compared to their White counterparts. Our data also shows that despite more women being hired overall, on average, women have greater qualifications as NCAA women’s basketball coaches compared to male coaches. This finding shows that women need more human capital than men to obtain head coaching positions which marks the presence of gender discrimination in the NCAA coaching labor market.

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“…Exploring the lived experiences of women in sport management from only a gendered perspective fails to acknowledge how diverse identities operate simultaneously. This has begun to change as women who are marginalized, such as those labeled as nonheterosexual or nonwhite, have become the focus of some research projects (Carter-Francique & Olushola, 2016;Norman, 2012;Trussell, 2020). Research focusing on women as a generic category, although sorely needed, has often ignored how women live and are constituted by several identities simultaneously.…”

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Introduction: why a Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

Knoppers,

Markula

2024

Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

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The involvement of women in sport and the excellence shown by women athletes is no longer headline news. The gender ratio of participants at the Olympic Games is near 50%. Although not all leaders in sport must have an athletic career, this significant number of female athletes suggests the presence of a large pool of women knowledgeable in sport who can take on leadership positions and work in sport management. However, in the growing sub-field of sport management research, gender is significantly less prominent as a research topic. Two recent and thorough reviews of the literature on the obstacles encountered by LGBTQ+ in sport revealed that most of this literature focused on athletes rather than on sport leaders or managers (Denison et al., 2021;Shaw & Cunningham, 2021). Similarly, a review of research about gender and sport organizations in five major sport sociology journals revealed that when articles have focused on gender, they have primarily, but not exclusively, explored the gendering of sport participation rather than the gendering of sport work/leadership (Knoppers et al., 2023). While much sport research currently champions the role of women athletes, Marissa Banu-Lawrence et al. (2020) add that "[t]he interaction between gender and leadership development remains an underexplored body of research" (p. 570

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Women coaches of color

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Is excellence inclusive? The benefits of fostering Black female college athlete's sense of belonging

Is excellence inclusive? The benefits of fostering Black female college athlete's sense of belonging

Title IX and Career Pathways of Coaches Across NCAA Women’s Basketball Programs: An Intersectional Approach to Human Capital in Hiring

Introduction: why a Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

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