To close out Women’s History Month, my department hosted Dr. Ellen Staurowsky, professor of sport management at Drexel University. Her talk centred on the representation of women in NCAA coaching, or more accurately, the lack of women’s representation. This trend has been very well documented: as women’s numbers as NCAA athletes have risen, the number of women coaching those teams has declined precipitously (from almost all women’s team having women coaches to about 40%). There are a lot of reasons for this, like the old-fashioned sexist belief that women are less adept as athletes and by extension, as coaches.
Stick to hockey: Institutional discrimination in sports
