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Barriers to women’s access to decision-making positions in sport organizations: the case of establishing a girls’ volleyball academy in Israel

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posted on 2015-12-02, 13:41 authored by Moran Betzer-Tayar, Sima Zach, Yair Galily, Ian Henry
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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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Journal of Gender Studies

Citation

BETZER-TAYAR, M. ... et al, 2015. Barriers to women’s access to decision-making positions in sport organizations: the case of establishing a girls’ volleyball academy in Israel. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(4), pp. 418-431.

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© Taylor and Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Gender Studies on 16th November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09589236.2015.1111835.

ISSN

0958-9236

eISSN

1465-3869

Language

  • en