Gender Equity in UK Sport Leadership and Governance
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Gender Equity in UK Sport Leadership and Governance goes beyond the headlines to provide a timely analyses of current strategy, policy, structure, and practice relating to gender equity in the leadership and governance of sport in the UK. It brings together the expertise and empirical insights from the work of scholars who are researching in this field.
Providing theoretical and historical insights, the first part of this edited collection includes chapters on intersectionality and the history of women in sport leadership and governance. The chapters in the second part explore gender equity in the UK home nations, analysing policy and practice within each home country, while problematising the complexity of a dual approach that includes devolved nation policies and UK policies. The final element draws together chapters that explore organisational practices and the gender pay gap and makes visible the everyday experiences of women working in the sector.
For those working in sport and researching gender equity, this collection provides evidence-based suggestions on ways we can evidence and create change within the sector through future research and applied practice.
Introduction; Philippa Velija and Lucy Piggott
- Section One-History and Theory
- Chapter 1. Thinking about and outside the box: A critical/queer approach to researching sport organisations; Annelies Knoppers
- Chapter 2. The Sport Intersectional Model of Power (SIMP) as a tool for understanding Intersectionality in Sport Governance and Leadership; Elena Simpkins, Philippa Velija, and Lucy Piggott
- Chapter 3. 'Holding a gun at our heads': The Sports Council's Role in Merger-Takeovers of Women’s Sport, 1985-2000; Raf Nicholson
- Section Two-Gender Equity in the Home Nations
- Chapter 4. Past, Present, Future: Policy and Gender Equity in English Sport Leadership and Governance; Lucy Piggott
- Chapter 5. Gender, Governance and 'Ireland': (In)Visibility and Symbolism; Katie Liston
- Chapter 6. Romanticising Gender and Governance in Scotland; Jane Dennehy
- Chapter 7. Gender Equity in Welsh Sport Governance; Lisa Edwards, Alun Hardman, and Robyn Pinder
- Section Three-Case Studies and Current Issues
- Chapter 8. Exclusionary power and women's experiences of working at the Football Association; Rhea Preston and Philippa Velija
- Chapter 9. Governance and leadership in British Horseracing: A gender perspective; Kate Clayton- Hathway
- Chapter 10. Authentic leadership and everyday leadership as a model for gender equity in Sport Governance and Leadership; Jane Booth
- Chapter 11. A Sociological Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap Data in UK Sport Organisations; Philippa Velija
- Chapter 12. Educating Generation Z about issues relating to Gender Equality in the governance and leadership of sport in the UK; Gill Renfree, Beth Burgess, and Vanessa Jones
Philippa Velija is Head of Social Sciences, Psychology and Education at Solent University, UK.
Lucy Piggott is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.