Breaking barriers in international sport leadership: women's representation and gender equality interventions

Lucie Schoch and Madeleine Pape

Chapter 16 in Sport Management in Europe, 2025, pp 249-265 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter presents key insights from the literature explaining the ongoing overrepresentation of men in international sport leadership. Using a multi-level approach, it discusses the complex intersecting factors that shape how male dominance continues to be embedded within and reproduced by sport organizations. The chapter also evaluates several interventions that sport organizations have employed with the stated aim of improving the representation of women in sport leadership. Specifically, it explores both the opportunities and challenges of measures such as gender quotas and targets, gender equality committees (GECs) and women's leadership and development programmes. The chapter concludes by emphasizing that advancing gender and other forms of representation in leadership can help sport organizations better serve their stakeholders in all their diversity, particularly those more likely to experience marginalization, abuse and exclusion.

Keywords: Gender equality; Leadership; Quotas; Gender equality committee; Leadership and development programmes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035333134
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