Barriers to women’s access to decision-making positions in sport organizations: the case of establishing a girls’ volleyball academy in Israel
Moran Betzer-Tayar
Sima Zach
Yair Galily
Ian Henry
2134/19703
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Barriers_to_women_s_access_to_decision-making_positions_in_sport_organizations_the_case_of_establishing_a_girls_volleyball_academy_in_Israel/9629426
The aim of this paper is to highlight the nature of the barriers facing women in terms of their participation in decision-making in Israeli sport, and to identify and evaluate some of the strategies and tactics adopted to overcome these barriers. This is done by making reference to a particular case study, the case of the process of establishing a major policy initiative in Israeli sport – the founding of the national Volleyball Academy for Young Talented Girls. The case is analyzed in order to identify how and why the goal of establishing the Academy was successful, and to consider what may be learned in terms of the implications for the tactics and strategies used that might be adopted by other women in similar circumstances.
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Women's barriers
Decision-making positions
Sport organizations
Critical discourse analysis
Gender equity
Auto-ethnography
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Sociology